Dynamic instability of the major urinary protein gene family revealed by genomic and phenotypic comparisons between C57 and 129 strain mice

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Mudge, Jonathan M ^a   Armstrong, Stuart D ^b   McLaren, Karen ^a   Beynon, Robert J ^b   Hurst, Jane L ^b   Nicholson, Christine ^a   Robertson, Duncan H ^b   Wilming, Laurens G ^a   Harrow, Jennifer L ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN; MAJOR URINARY PROTEINS; PROTEIN;

129 MOUSE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PSEUDOGENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE STRAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47149101500     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r91     Document Type: Article

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