Evolution of hemoglobin and its genes

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hardison, Ross C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN GAMMA CHAIN; MYOGLOBIN; NEUROGLOBIN; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 1; HEME;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; THALASSEMIA; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 84877301375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011627     Document Type: Article

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