Long targeting arms do not increase the efficiency of homologous recombination in the β-globin locus of murine embryonic stem cells

Blood

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1531-1533

  Lu, Zhi Hong ^b   Books, Jason T ^b   Kaufman, Richard M ^b   Ley, Timothy J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VECTOR; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; STEM CELL;

EID: 0043240053     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-03-0708     Document Type: Article

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