Isolation, genomic organization, and expression analysis of the mouse and rat homologs of MEFV, the gene for familial Mediterranean fever

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 428-435

  Chae, Jae Jin ^a   Centola, Michael ^a   Aksentijevich, Ivona ^a   Dutra, Amalia ^b   Tran, Maiyen ^c   Wood, Geryl ^a   Nagaraju, Kanneboyina ^a   Kingma, Douglas William ^c   Liu, P Paul ^b   Kastner, Daniel L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16; EXON; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNOVITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034084791     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350010082     Document Type: Article

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