Human-ovine comparative sequencing of a 250-kb imprinted domain encompassing the callipyge (clpg) locus and identification of six imprinted transcripts: DLK1, DAT, GTL2, PEG11, antiPEG11, and MEG8

Genome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 850-862

  Charlier, Carole ^a   Segers, Karin ^a   Wagenaar, Danny ^a   Karim, Latifa ^a   Berghmans, Stéphane ^a   Jaillon, Olivier ^b   Shay, Tracy ^c   Weissenbach, Jean ^b   Cockett, Noelle ^c   Gyapay, Gabor ^b   Georges, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA LIKE 1 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DELTA LIKE 1 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIPEG11; PROTEIN CALLIPYGE; PROTEIN GTL2; PROTEIN MEG8; PROTEIN PEG11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MARKER GENE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE; SHEEP; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GUANINE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17744365941     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.172701     Document Type: Letter

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