Cloning of the canine gene encoding transcription factor Pit-1 and its exclusion as candidate gene in a canine model of pituitary dwarfism

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Lantinga Van Leeuwen, Irma S ^a   Mol, Jan A ^a   Kooistra, Hans S ^a   Rijnberk, Ad ^a   Breen, Matthew ^b   Renier, Corinne ^c   Van Oost, Bernard A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Inst de Rech Contre le Cancer IRCC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DOG; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PITUITARY DWARFISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DWARFISM, PITUITARY; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033985851     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350010006     Document Type: Article

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