Alu-mediated 100-kb deletion in the primate genome: The loss of the agouti signaling protein gene in the lesser apes

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-490

  Nakayama, Kazuhiro ^a   Ishida, Takafumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIMATES; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; HYLOBATES SP.; PRIMATES; SIMIAE;

EID: 33645522144     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4763906     Document Type: Article

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