Transposon-mediated genome manipulation in vertebrates

Nature Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 415-422

  Ivics, Zoltán ^a   Li, Meng Amy ^b   Mátés, Lajos ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^c   Nagy, Andras ^d,e   Bradley, Allan ^b   Izsvák, Zsuzsanna ^a,f  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID;

DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; VERTEBRATES;

HARNESS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66249100555     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1332     Document Type: Review

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