Cloning and characterization of two vertebrate homologs of the Drosophila eyes absent gene

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 128-141

  Zimmerman, John E ^a   Bui, Quang T ^a   Steingrímsson, Eiríkur ^b   Nagle, Deborah L ^a,c   Fu, Weili ^a   Genin, Anna ^a   Spinner, Nancy B ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^b   Bucan, Maja ^a   Bonini, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 15644374178     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.2.128     Document Type: Article

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