β-globin YAC transgenes exhibit uniform expression levels but position effect variegation in mice

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 631-636

  Alami, Raouf ^a   Greally, John M ^b   Tanimoto, Keiji ^c   Hwang, Steven ^b   Feng, Yong Qing ^a   Engel, James D ^c   Fiering, Steven ^d   Bouhassira, Eric E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPLEEN; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034161972     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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