The WTX/AMER1 gene family: Evolution, signature and function

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Boutet, Agnès ^a,b   Comai, Glenda ^a,b   Schedl, Andreas ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MUTATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; TUMOR; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BETA CATENIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL LINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77956537091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-280     Document Type: Article

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