Functional significance of isoform diversification in the protocadherin gamma gene cluster

Neuron

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 402-409

  Chen, Weisheng V ^a   Alvarez, Francisco J ^b,e   Lefebvre, Julie L ^c   Friedman, Brad ^a,f   Nwakeze, Chiamaka ^a   Geiman, Eric ^b   Smith, Courtney ^b   Thu, Chan Aye ^a   Tapia, Juan Carlos ^a   Tasic, Bosiljka ^d   Sanes, Joshua R ^c   Maniatis, Tom ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; PROTOCADHERIN GAMMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PCDHG GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL COUNT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84864949487     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.06.039     Document Type: Article

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