Do β-tubulin pseudogenes really matter?

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 271-272

  Belda Iniesta C , Cristobal ^a,b   Perona, Rosario ^b   de Castro Carpeno, Javier ^a   Chattopadhyay, Sharmila ^b   Casado, Enrique ^a   Cejas, Paloma ^a   Vara, Juan Angel Fresno ^a   Moreno Guerra, Concepcion ^a   Baron, Manuel Gonzalez ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENSEMBL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 2142696696     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(04)01464-0     Document Type: Letter

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