Transcription profiling of inner ears from Pou4f3ddl/ddl identifies Gfi1 as a target of the Pou4f3 deafness gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2143-2153

  Hertzano, Ronna ^a,b   Montcouquiol, Mireille ^b   Rashi Elkeles, Sharon ^a   Elkon, Rani ^a   Yücel, Raif ^c   Frankel, Wayne N ^d   Rechavi, Gideon ^a   Möröy, Tarik ^c   Friedman, Thomas B ^b   Kelley, Matthew W ^b   Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR INDEPENDENCE 1; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EAR, INNER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HAIR CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4744376084     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh218     Document Type: Article

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