Gene order in human α-globin locus is required for their temporal specific expressions

Genes to Cells

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-131

  Tang, Yi ^a   Wang, Zhao ^a   Huang, Yue ^a   Liu, De Pei ^a   Liu, Guang ^a   Shen, Wei ^a   Tang, Xiaobin ^a   Feng, Dongxiao ^a   Liang, Chih Chuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; UREASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA PURIFICATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ORDER; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33645885916     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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