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A homeobox gene, vax2, controls the patterning of the eye dorsoventral axis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Sept 1999
Barbieri A M, Lupo G, Bulfone A, Andreazzoli M, Mariani M, Fougerousse F, Consalez G G, Borsani G, Beckmann J S, Barsacchi G, Ballabio A, Banfi S
Abstract excerpt
We have identified a transcription factor specifically expressed in the developing vertebrate eye. We named this gene vax2 because of the high degree of sequence similarity to the recently described vax1. Both in the human and mouse genomes, vax2 is localized in the vicinity of the emx1 gene. This mapping assignment, together with the previously reported colocalization of Vax1 and Emx2 in mouse, indicates that...
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