The Prader-Willi syndrome murine imprinting center is not involved in the spatio-temporal transcriptional regulation of the Necdin gene

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Watrin, Françoise ^a   Le Meur, Elodie ^a   Roeckel, Nathalie ^b   Ripoche, Marie Anne ^c   Dandolo, Luisa ^c   Muscatelli, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN; MAGEL 2 PROTEIN; NECDIN; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SNRPN PROTEIN; SNURF PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; RETROPOSON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 25444531466     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-1     Document Type: Article

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