Genome annotation of a 1.5 Mb region of human chromosome 6q23 encompassing a quantitative trait locus for fetal hemoglobin expression in adults

BMC Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Close, James ^a,b   Game, Laurence ^a,c   Clark, Barnaby ^a   Bergounioux, Jean ^a,d   Gerovassili, Ageliki ^a   Thein, Swee Lay ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F; RNA; AHI1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; NERVE PROTEIN; PDE7B PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VII; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE MYB; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE;

3',5'-CYCLIC-AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 7; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MYB; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PSEUDOGENES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 9144248512     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-5-33     Document Type: Article

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