Members of the olfactory receptor gene family are contained in large blocks of DNA duplicated polymorphically near the ends of human chromosomes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-26

  Trask, Barbara J ^a   Friedman, Cynthia ^a   Martin Gallardo, Antonia ^b   Rowen, Lee ^a   Akinbami, Carolyn ^a   Blankenship, John ^a   Collins, Colin ^c   Giorgi, Dominique ^d   Iadonato, Shawn ^a   Johnson, Forrester ^a   Kuo, Wen Lin ^e   Massa, Hillary ^a   Morrish, Tammy ^f   Naylor, Susan ^f   Nguyen, Oanh T H ^a   Rouquier, Sylvie ^d   Smith, Todd ^a   Wong, David J ^a   Youngblom, Janey ^g   Van Den Engh, Ger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Univ of Texas Hlth Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 6844242311     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.1.13     Document Type: Article

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