Next-Generation Sequencing Identifies the Danforth's Short Tail Mouse Mutation as a Retrotransposon Insertion Affecting Ptf1a Expression

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Vlangos, Christopher N ^a   Siuniak, Amanda N ^a   Robinson, Dan ^b   Chinnaiyan, Arul M ^a,b   Lyons, Robert H ^c   Cavalcoli, James D ^c   Keegan, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAUDAL REGRESSION SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 2QA3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANFORTH SHORT TAIL MUTATION; DNA ENRICHMENT; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOMICS; MOUSE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PTF1A GENE; RETROPOSON; SYNDROME VATER; UPREGULATION; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

EID: 84874768985     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003205     Document Type: Article

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