Identification of a putative DNA replication origin in the γ-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit β3 and α5 gene cluster on human chromosome 15q11-q13, a region associated with parental imprinting and allele-specific replication timing

Gene

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-177

  Sinnett, D ^e   Woolf, E ^a   Xie, W ^f   Glatt, K ^f   Kirkness, E F ^b   Nielsen, T O ^c   Zannis Hadjopoulos, M ^c   Price, G B ^c   Lalande, M ^a,d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^f NONE

Author keywords

ARS; Bent DNA; Contig; DNA helical stability; DNA unwinding; GABA; Lambda phage cloning; Topoisomerase II binding sites

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CURVED DNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0038527739     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00106-0     Document Type: Article

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