A new deletion refines the boundaries of the murine Prader-Willi syndrome imprinting center

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3461-3466

  Dubose, Amanda J ^a,b   Smith, Emily Y ^a   Yang, Thomas P ^a   Johnstone, Karen A ^a,c   Resnick, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME;

MURINAE;

EID: 80051692364     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr262     Document Type: Article

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