Four DAZ genes in two clusters found in the AZFc region of the human Y chromosome

Genomics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 256-267

  Saxena, Richa ^a   De Vries, Jan W A ^b   Repping, Sjoerd ^b   Alagappan, Raaji K ^a   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Brown, Laura G ^a   Ma, Peter ^c   Chen, Ellson ^c   Hoovers, Jan M N ^b   Page, David C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CELERA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM REPEAT; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034253627     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2000.6260     Document Type: Article

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