Highly conserved regions in the 5' region of human olfactory receptor genes

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-128

  Tobar, H F ^a   Moreno, P A ^b   Velez, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Enhancers; Highly conserved region; Olfactory receptor gene; Promoter region; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR GENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY;

5' FLANKING REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT;

EID: 66349111697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol8-1gmr550     Document Type: Article

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