The human SPANX multigene family: Genomic organization, alignment and expression in male germ cells and tumor cell lines

Gene

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-133

  Zendman, Albert J W ^a   Zschocke, Jürgen ^b   Van Kraats, Annemieke A ^a   De Wit, Nicole J W ^a   Kurpisz, Maciej ^c   Weidle, Ulrich H ^d   Ruiter, Dirk J ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth H ^b   Van Muijen, Goos N P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

^d ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer testis antigen; Chromosome Xq27.1; CTp11; Primates

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPANX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOMA CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR CELL LINE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0038324328     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00497-9     Document Type: Article

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