Reshuffling genomic landscapes to study the regulatory evolution of Hox gene clusters

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

Volumn 108, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 10632-10637

  Tschopp, Patrick ^a   Fraudeau, Nadine ^a   Béna, Frédérique ^b   Duboule, Denis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Centre Médical Universitaire   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Genetics; Global gene regulation; Limb development; Long range enhancers; Mouse genetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FINGER MALFORMATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOX GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960613609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102985108     Document Type: Article

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