Fox's in development and disease

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 339-344

  Lehmann, Ordan J ^a   Sowden, Jane C ^b   Carlsson, Peter ^c   Jordan, Tim ^d   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR GROWTH; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANIDAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037866671     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00111-2     Document Type: Review

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