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Chromosomal localization of the mouse gene coding for vimentin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Marie-Genevieve Mattei
Affiliation:
INSERM U.242 Centre dé genétique médicale, Hôpital d'enfants de la Timone, 13385 Marseille Cedex, France.
Alain Lilienbaum
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Différenciation de l'UniversitéParis 7 et de l'lnstitut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75754 Paris
Li Zhen Lin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Différenciation de l'UniversitéParis 7 et de l'lnstitut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75754 Paris
Jean-François Mattei
Affiliation:
INSERM U.242 Centre dé genétique médicale, Hôpital d'enfants de la Timone, 13385 Marseille Cedex, France.
Denise Paulin*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Différenciation de l'UniversitéParis 7 et de l'lnstitut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75754 Paris
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*Corresponding author.
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The chromosomal location of the mouse gene coding for vimentin, one of the intermediate filament subunits, was determined by in situ hybridization using specific H3-labelled DNA probes. There is only one copy of the vimentin gene and it is located on chromosome 2 region A2.

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