The C15orf2 gene in the Prader-Willi syndrome region is subject to genomic imprinting and positive selection

Neurogenetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-161

  Wawrzik, Michaela ^a   Unmehopa, Unga Arifa ^b   Swaab, Dick Frans ^b   Van De Nes, Johannes ^a   Buiting, Karin ^a   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C15orf2; Genomic imprinting; Hypothalamus; Prader Willi syndrome

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME 15 OPEN READING FRAME 2 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHROMOSOME 15; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPLOTYPE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 77954660585     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-009-0231-z     Document Type: Article

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