Identification and characterization of the mouse obesity gene tubby: A member of a novel gene family

Cell

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 281-290

  Kleyn, Patrick W ^a   Fan, Wei ^a   Kovats, Steve G ^a   Lee, John J ^a   Pulido, Jacqueline C ^a   Wu, Ye ^a   Berkemeier, Lucy R ^a   Misumi, Don J ^a   Holmgren, Lisa ^a   Charlat, Olga ^a   Woolf, Elizabeth A ^a   Tayber, Olga ^a   Brody, Thomas ^a   Shu, Pei ^a   Hawkins, Fiona ^a   Kennedy, Brenda ^a   Baldini, Linda ^b   Ebeling, Chris ^b   Alperin, Geoffrey D ^a   Deeds, Jim ^a   Lakey, Nathan D ^a   Culpepper, Janice ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Glücksmann Kuis, M Alexandra ^a   Carlson, George A ^b   Duyk, Geoffrey M ^a   Moore, Karen J ^a   more..

^a MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b MCLAUGHLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 7; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 15844372440     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81104-6     Document Type: Article

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