Description of a novel polymorphic gene encoding for arylamine N-acetyltransferase in the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), a model animal for endometriosis

Pharmacogenetics and Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 181-188

  Fakis, Giannoulis ^a,c   Boukouvala, Sotiria ^b,c   Kawamura, Akane ^b   Kennedy, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arylamine N acetyltransferase 2; Complex disease; Endometriosis; Macaca mulatta; Monkey; Multifactorial disease; N acetyltransferase 2; Nonhuman primate model; Rhesus macaque; Xenobiotic metabolism

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALLOENZYME; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESALAZINE; PARA ANISIDINE; PROCAINAMIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SULFADIMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACACA; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHESUS MONKEY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34247587609     PISSN: 17446872     EISSN: 17446880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FPC.0b013e328011e3ad     Document Type: Article

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