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Clustered genes for human U2 RNA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·Vol. 81 ·No. 12 ·1984-06-00 ·Pages 3811-5

Westin G, Zabielski J, Hammarström K, Monstein HJ, Bark C, Pettersson U

Abstract

Genes for the human small nuclear RNA U2 are present within 6.2-kilobase-pair-long tandem repeats. The haploid human genome contains approximately 20 such repeats, organized in one or a few very large clusters.

MeSH Terms
Base Sequence Cloning, Molecular DNA Restriction Enzymes DNA, Recombinant Genes Genetic Linkage Humans Nucleic Acid Hybridization RNA/genetics RNA, Small Nuclear Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Chemicals
DNA, Recombinant RNA, Small Nuclear RNA DNA Restriction Enzymes
Authors & Affiliations
6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Westin G
Zabielski J
Hammarström K
Monstein H J
Bark C
Pettersson U
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abbr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
DOI
10.1073/pnas.81.12.3811
Published
1984-06-00
Pages
3811-5
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505876
PMCID
PMC345310
Subset
IM
Databases
GENBANK
M12526, M19204, M19205, M19206
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.12.3811 PMC Full Text View journal details
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