Functional characterization of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the human undifferentiated embryonic-cell transcription factor 1 gene

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 241-248

  Thummer, Rajkumar P ^a   Drenth Diephuis, Loes J ^a   Carney, Karen E ^a   Eggen, Bart J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLYCINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNDIFFERENTIATED EMBRYONIC CELL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 77952341901     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2009.0981     Document Type: Article

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