A surprising abundance of human disease genes in a simple "basal" animal, the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis)

Genome

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 689-692

  Sullivan, James C ^a,b   Finnerty, John R ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b StellaResearch   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCA2; Breast cancer; Cnidaria; Lipofuscinosis; Neuraminidase deficiency; Peptidase; Sea anemone; Sialidase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 34948908573     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G07-045     Document Type: Article

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