HOX genes: Seductive science, mysterious mechanisms

Ulster Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-31

  Lappin, Terence R J ^a   Grier, David G ^a   Thompson, Alexander ^a   Halliday, Henry L ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DROSOPHILA; DRUG DESIGN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HOX GENE; HUMAN; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; OVARY CANCER; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SCIENCE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION;

EID: 31644433076     PISSN: 00416193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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