NKp30 (NCR3) is a pseudogene in 12 inbred and wild mouse strains, but an expressed gene in Mus caroli

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1661-1672

  Hollyoake, Martine ^a   Campbell, R Duncan ^a   Aguado, Begoña ^a,b  

^a MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mus caroli; NCR; Nkp30; Pseudogene; Splice forms; TREM6

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NKP30; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOME; INBRED STRAIN; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; WILD TYPE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS CAROLI; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 25444497198     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi162     Document Type: Article

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