The chicken polydactyly (Po) locus causes allelic imbalance and ectopic expression of Shh during limb development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1163-1172

  Dunn, Ian C ^a   Paton, I Robert ^a   Clelland, Allyson K ^b,d   Sebastian, Sujith ^a   Johnson, Edward J ^a   Mcteir, Lynn ^a   Windsor, Dawn ^a   Sherman, Adrian ^a   Sang, Helen ^a   Burt, Dave W ^a   Tickle, Cheryll ^c   Davey, Megan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polydactyly; Silkie; Sonic hedgehog; ZRS

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN GREMLIN; PROTEIN HOXD13; PROTEIN LMBR1; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; PROTEIN PATCHED 2; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC GENE EXPRESSION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE; ZONE OF POLARISING ACTIVITY REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CATS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; EXTREMITIES; GENOTYPE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; POLYDACTYLY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MUS;

EID: 79954994050     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22623     Document Type: Article

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