The mouse Y chromosome interval necessary for spermatogonial proliferation is gene dense with syntenic homology to the human AZFa region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1713-1724

  Mazeyrat, Sophie ^e   Saut, Noëmie ^e   Sargent, Carole A ^a,b   Grimmond, Sean ^c   Longepied, Guy ^e   Ehrmann, Ingrid E ^d   Ellis, Pamela S ^d   Greenfield, Andy ^c   Affara, Nabeel A ^a,b   Mitchell, Michael J ^e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SYNTENY; Y CHROMOSOME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 7344222765     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.11.1713     Document Type: Article

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