Structure and expression of the variant melanin-concentrating hormone genes: Only PMCHL1 is transcribed in the developing human brain and encodes a putative protein

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1626-1640

  Viale, Agnès ^a,b   Courseaux, Anouk ^a   Presse, Françoise ^a   Ortola, Christine ^a   Breton, Christophe ^a   Jordan, Daniel ^c   Nahon, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSERM de Pharmacologie Endocrinologie ^*

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Expressed pseudogene; Human brain; Human chromosome 5; Primate evolution; Variant MCH gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 5P; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033735945     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026262     Document Type: Article

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