Sometimes the result is not the answer: The truths and the lies that come from using the complementation test

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-15

  Hawley, R Scott ^a,b   Gilliland, William D ^a  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ALLELE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HAPLOIDY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33748894674     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.064550     Document Type: Review

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