Sequence, structure, and evolution of a complete human olfactory receptor gene cluster

Genomics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-245

  Glusman, Gustavo ^a   Sosinsky, Alona ^a   Ben Asher, Edna ^a   Avidan, Nili ^a   Sonkin, Dina ^a   Bahar, Anita ^a   Rosenthal, André ^b   Clifton, Sandra ^c   Roe, Bruce ^c   Ferraz, Concepción ^d   Demaille, Jacques ^d   Lancet, Doron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17P; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034050054     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.6030     Document Type: Article

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