Organization of the MASP2 locus and its expression profile in mouse and rat

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 887-900

  Stover, Cordula M ^a,b   Lynch, Nicholas J ^a   Hanson, Steven J ^a   Windbichler, Michaela ^a   Gregory, Simon G ^c   Schwaeble, Wilhelm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMYOSITIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCLERODERMA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LIVER; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; MICE; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SYNTENY;

SCLERODERMA;

EID: 11244313306     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-004-3006-8     Document Type: Article

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