cdx4 mutants fail to specify blood progenitors and can be rescued by multiple hox genes

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6955, 2003, Pages 300-306

  Davidson, Alan J ^a   Ernst, Patricia ^b   Wang, Yuan ^c   Dekens, Marcus P S ^d   Kingsley, Paul D ^e   Palis, James ^e   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^b   Daley, George Q ^c   Zon, Leonard I ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BLOOD; MUTAGENESIS;

GENE EXPRESSIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CDX4 GENE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HOX GENE; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KIDNEY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141605010     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01973     Document Type: Article

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