The proximal first exon architecture of the murine ghrelin gene is highly similar to its human orthologue

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Seim, Inge ^a   Carter, Shea L ^a   Herington, Adrian C ^a   Chopin, Lisa K ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 69249204263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-85     Document Type: Article

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