Comparative sequence analysis of the MECP2-locus in human and mouse reveals new transcribed regions

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 182-190

  Reichwald, Kathrin ^a   Thiesen, Jens ^b   Wiehe, Thomas ^a   Weitzel, Joachim ^b   Strätling, Wolf H ^b   Kioschis, Petra ^c   Poustka, Annemarie ^c   Rosenthal, André ^a,d   Platzer, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED KINASES; INTRONS; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; POLY A; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0034007933     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350010035     Document Type: Article

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