The region on 9p associated with 46,XY sex reversal contains several transcripts expressed in the urogenital system and a novel doublesex-related domain

Genomics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 170-178

  Ottolenghi, Chris ^a,b   Veitia, Reiner ^a,c   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^a   Torchard, Delphine ^d   Scapoli, Luca ^b   Souleyreau Therville, Nicole ^a   Beckmann, Jacques ^d   Fellous, Marc ^a   McElreavey, Ken ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^d GÉNÉTHON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 9P; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034162155     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2000.6121     Document Type: Article

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