Cellular Werner phenotypes in mice expressing a putative dominant- negative human WRN gene

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 357-362

  Wang, Lan ^a   Ogburn, Charles E ^a   Ware, Carol B ^a   Ladiges, Warren C ^a   Youssoufian, Hagop ^b   Martin, George M ^a   Oshima, Junko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; WERNER SYNDROME;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA HELICASES; DOWN-REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; QUINOLONES; RECQ HELICASES; WERNER SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033978881     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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