An enhancer-titration effect induces digit-specific regulatory alleles of the HoxD cluster

Developmental Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 212-220

  Monge, Ignacio ^a,b   Kondo, Takashi ^a,c   Duboule, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distal limb; Enhancer modulation; Gene transposition

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FINGER MALFORMATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0037445932     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00136-7     Document Type: Article

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