Article
A gene recently inactivated in human defines a new olfactory receptor family in mammals.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1998
Rouquier S, Friedman C, Delettre C, van den Engh G, Blancher A, Crouau-Roy B, Trask B J, Giorgi D
Abstract excerpt
The olfactory receptor (OR) gene family constitutes one of the largest multigene families and is distributed among many chromosomal sites in the human genome. Four OR families have been defined in mammals. We previously demonstrated that a high fraction of human OR sequences have incurred deleter...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA
- DNA Primers
- Evolution, Molecular
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Mammals
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Primates
- Pseudogenes
- Receptors, Odorant