Gene-trap mutagenesis: Past, present and beyond

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 756-768

  Stanford, William L ^a   Cohn, Jason B ^a,b   Cordes, Sabine P ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTAGENIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ANIMAL; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FORECASTING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FORECASTING; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TARGETING; GENES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROINJECTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTAGENS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROVIRIDAE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0035487038     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35093548     Document Type: Review

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