The human Achaete-Scute homologue 2 (ASCL2,HASH2) maps to chromosome 11p15.5, close to IGF2 and is expressed in extravillus trophoblasts

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 859-867

  Alders, Mariëlle ^a   Hodges, Matthew ^b   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^b   Postmus, Jan ^b   Van Wijk, Inge ^c   Bliek, Jet ^a   De Meulemeester, Maurice ^a   Westerveld, Andries ^a   Guillemot, François ^d   Oudejans, Cees ^c   Little, Peter ^b   Mannens, Marcel ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TROPHOBLAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 8244224533     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.6.859     Document Type: Article

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