Identification and characterization of the human StARD9 gene in the LGMD2A-region on chromosome 15q15 by in silico methods

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 653-656

  Halama, Niels ^a   Grauling Halama, Silke A ^a   Jäger, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome 15q15; Steroidogenic acute regulatory

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; STARD9 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 15; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 39049176668     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.18.4.653     Document Type: Article

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