Cloning of the rat agouti gene and identification of the rat nonagouti mutation

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 469-471

  Kuramoto, Takashi ^a   Nomoto, Tomoko ^a   Sugimura, Takashi ^a   Ushijima, Toshikazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE MUTATION; HAIR COLOR; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0035019263     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350020010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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