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The Human Placental Lactogen and Growth Hormone Multi-Gene Family

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The central problem of molecular biology is the understanding of how the genetic information coded in the nucleic acid is expressed and, what are the mechanisms that regulate such expression. Much progess has been made in understanding gene regulation in prokaryotic systems, however, in eukaryotic organisms, the advances have been much slower and much more recent. This is closely related in part to the degree of evolutionary complexity of the eukaryotic cell.

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  1. Facultad de Medicina de la U.A.N.L., Unidad de Laboratorios de Ingeniería y Expresión Genéticas (ULIEG) del Departamento de Bioquímica, Monterrey, N.L., México

    Hugo A. Barrera-Saldanña, Ramiro Ramírez-Solís & Diana Reséndez-Pérez

  2. The International Center for Molecular Medicine, Monterrey, N.L., México

    Hugo A. Barrera-Saldanña

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    William H. Walker, Susan L. Fitzpatrick & Grady F. Saunders

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Barrera-Saldanña, H.A., Ramírez-Solís, R., Walker, W.H., Fitzpatrick, S.L., Reséndez-Pérez, D., Saunders, G.F. (1988). The Human Placental Lactogen and Growth Hormone Multi-Gene Family. In: Cañedo, L.E., Todd, L.E., Packer, L., Jaz, J. (eds) Cell Function and Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0813-3_4

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