Toward positional cloning of the curly tail gene

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 154-161

  Brouns, Madeleine R ^a   Peeters, Marian C E ^a,b   Geurts, Jan M ^a,c   Merckx, Diane M ^a   Engelen, John J ^a   Hekking, Johan W M ^a   Terwindt Rouwenhorst, Els A W ^a   Oosterbaan, Mariet E A C ^a   Geraedts, Joep P M ^a   Van Straaten, Henny W ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c F Coberco Diary Foods Corp Res   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Neural tube defects; Positional cloning; Recombinant strain; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CDC42 GENE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CURLY TAIL GENE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; IDB3 GENE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERLECAN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINA BIFIDA; WNT4 GENE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 20144387120     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20109     Document Type: Article

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