Transformation of a transposon into a derived prolactin promoter with function during human pregnancy

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

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11246-11251

  Emera, Deena ^a,b   Wagner, Günter P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory evolution; Human evolution; Human pregnancy

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MER20; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MER39; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CERCOPITHECIDAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLATYRRHINI; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84863946845     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118566109     Document Type: Article

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