Normal germ line establishment in mice carrying a deletion of the Ifitm/Fragilis gene family cluster

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4688-4696

  Lange, Ulrike C ^a,b   Adams, David J ^c   Lee, Caroline ^a   Barton, Sheila ^a   Schneider, Robert ^b   Bradley, Allan ^c   Surani, M Azim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAGILIS GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOTE; IFITM1 GENE; IFITM3 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS;

EID: 47949093351     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00272-08     Document Type: Article

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