Genetically separable determinants of hair keratin gene expression

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 537-543

  Schorpp, Michael ^a   Schlake, Thomas ^a   Kreamalmeyer, Darren ^b   Allen, Paul M ^b   Boehm, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Antimorph; Expression; Hair keratin gene; Hypomorph; Nude

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HAIR; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KERATINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033911084     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0177(200007)218:3<537::AID-DVDY1007>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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