The human NECDIN gene, NDN, is maternally imprinted and located in the Prader-Willi syndrome chromosomal region

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-361

  Jay, Philippe ^a   Rougeulle, Claire ^b   Massacrier, Annick ^c   Moncla, Anne ^d   Mattei, Marie Geneviève ^d   Malzac, Perrine ^d   Roëckel, Nathalie ^d   Taviaux, Sylvie ^a   Lefranc, Jean Louis Bergé ^d   Cau, Pierre ^c   Berta, Philippe ^a   Lalande, Marc ^b   Muscatelli, Françoise ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 16944363776     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1197-357     Document Type: Article

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