Complex patterns of transcription at the insertion site of a retrotransposon in the mouse

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 5800-5808

  Druker, Riki ^a   Bruxner, Timothy James ^a   Lehrbach, Nicolas John ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYADENYLATION; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 7444264729     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh914     Document Type: Article

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