Volume 14 Issue 1, September 1996

Something about silencing

• Sharon Y. Roth

Alkaptonuria: such a long journey

• Charles R. Scriver

Is human patched the gatekeeper of common skin cancers?

• David Sidransky

MYC family ties

• Emmett V. Schmidt

New FISH probes – the end in sight

• Jar-Fee Yung

Touching Base

Simple sequences in a ‘minimal ’ genome

• John M. Hancock

Palindromic structure of the IgH 3′locus control region

• Christine Chauveau
• Michel Cogné

The business of genomics

• Roger L. Albin

The molecular basis of alkaptonuria

• José M. Fernández-Cañón
• Begoña Granadino
• Santiago Rodríguez De Córdoba

The EXT2 multiple exostoses gene defines a family of putative tumour suppressor genes

• Dominique Stickens
• Gregory Clines
• Glen A. Evans

The translocation t(8;16)(p11;p13) of acute myeloid leukaemia fuses a putative acetyltransferase to the CREB–binding protein

• Julian Borrow
• Vincent P. Stanton Jr
• David E. Housman

Yeast SAS silencing genes and human genes associated with AML and HIV–1 Tat interactions are homologous with acetyltransferases

• Cheryl Reifsnyder
• Joanna Lowell
• Lorraine Pillus

Ectopic expression of MITF, a gene for Waardenburg syndrome type 2, converts fibroblasts to cells with melanocyte characteristics

• Masayoshi Tachibana
• Kazuhisa Takeda
• Toru Miki

Apolipoprotein E allele–specific antioxidant activity and effects on cytotoxicity by oxidative insults and β–amyloid peptides

• Masaaki Miyata
• Jonathan D. Smith

Sox9 expression during gonadal development implies a conserved role for the gene in testis differentiation in mammals and birds

• Sara Morais da Silva
• Adam Hacker
• Robin Lovell-Badge

BIN1 is a novel MYC–interacting protein with features of a tumour suppressor

• Daitoku Sakamuro
• Katharine J. Elliott
• George C. Prendergast

The role of the human homologue of Drosophila patched in sporadic basal cell carcinomas

• Mae R. Gailani
• Mona Ståhle-Bäckdahl
• Rune Toftgård

A genome scan localizes five non–MHC loci controlling collagen–induced arthritis in rats

• Elaine F. Remmers
• Ryan E. Longman
• Ronald L. Wilder

A complete set of human telomeric probes and their clinical application

• Yi Ning
• Anna Roschke
• William R.A. Brown

Mapping of a gene for type 2 diabetes associated with an insulin secretion defect by a genome scan in Finnish families

• Melanie M. Mahtani
• Elisabeth Widén
• Leif C. Groop

Leptin activation of Stat3 in the hypothalamus of wild–type and ob/ob mice but not db/db mice

• Christian Vaisse
• Jeffrey L Halaas
• Jeffrey M. Friedman

Elevated alcohol consumption in null mutant mice lacking 5–HT_1B serotonin receptors

• John C. Crabbe
• Tamara J. Phillips
• Gwen L. Schafer

Mutation of MSH3 in endometrial cancer and evidence for its functional role in heteroduplex repair

• John I. Risinger
• Asad Umar
• J. Carl Barrett

Identification of Grf1 on mouse chromosome 9 as an imprinted gene by RLGS–M

• Christoph Plass
• Hideo Shibata
• Verne M. Chapman

Identification of NF1 mutations in both alleles of a dermal neurofibroma

• Shun'ichi Sawada
• Scott Florell
• David Viskochil

Type VI collagen mutations in Bethlem myopathy, an autosomal dominant myopathy with contractures

• G. Joost Jöbsis
• H. Keizers
• Pieter A. Bolhuis

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