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Assignment of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene to Human Chromosome 6p21.3
15 Apr 1996
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BACKGROUND: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an endothelial cell-specific growth factor and a regulator of physiological and pathological angiogenesis. Four different proteins are produced by alternative splicing of a unique transcript generated from a single-copy gene. Knowledge of the chromosomal location of the VEGF gene would help in determining a linkage to any known human congenital syndrome...
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