A rare complex DNA rearrangement in the murine Steel gene results in exon duplication and a lethal phenotype

Blood

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3548-3555

  Chandra, Saurabh ^b   Kapur, Reuben ^b   Chuzhanova, Nadia ^b   Summey, Victoria ^b   Prentice, David ^b   Barker, Jane ^b   Cooper, David N ^b   Williams, David A ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT E; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EXON; FETUS LIVER; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTRON; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; STEEL GENE; STEM CELL;

EID: 0242494987     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-05-1468     Document Type: Article

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