Genetic modulation of horizontal cell number in the mouse retina

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9697-9702

  Whitney, Irene E ^a   Raven, Mary A ^a   Ciobanu, Daniel C ^b   Poché, Ross A ^c   Ding, Qian ^d   Elshatory, Yasser ^d   Gan, Lin ^d   Williams, Robert W ^e   Reese, Benjamin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele specific expression; Follistatin; Quantitative trait locus; Recombinant inbred strain

Indexed keywords

LIM PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; E BOX ELEMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 79959330424     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103253108     Document Type: Article

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