The Two Functional Keratin 6 Genes of Mouse Are Differentially Regulated and Evolved Independently from Their Human Orthologs

October 1998 in “ Genomics ”

Kenzo Takahashi, Bing Yan, K Yamanishi, Sadao Imamura, Pierre A. Coulombe

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