Evidence for genetic modifiers of postnatal lethality in PWS-IC deletion mice

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2971-2977

  Chamberlain, Stormy J ^a,c   Johnstone, Karen A ^a   DuBose, Amanda J ^a   Simon, Thomas A ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^b   Resnick, James L ^a   Brannan, Camilynn I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 9744241653     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh314     Document Type: Article

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