Current issues in mouse genome engineering

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1187-1193

  Glaser, Stefan ^a   Anastassiadis, Konstantinos ^a   Stewart, A Francis ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27644576914     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1668     Document Type: Review

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