Structure and chromosome location of Smtn, the mouse smoothelin gene

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 225-229

  Rensen, Sander ^a   Merkx, G ^b   Doevendans, P ^a   Geurts Van Kessel, A ^b   Van Eys, G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SMOOTHELIN A; SMOOTHELIN B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA; EXONS; GENES, STRUCTURAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033810342     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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