Deletion of the mouse α-globin regulatory element (HS -26) has an unexpectedly mild phenotype

Blood

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3450-3456

  Anguita, Eduardo ^a   Sharpe, Jacqueline A ^a   Sloane Stanley, Jacqueline A ^a   Tufarelli, Cristina ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^a   Wood, William G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0037111656     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-05-1409     Document Type: Article

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