Hox genes, a subset of homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals...
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Homeobox (redirect from HOX cluster)
Hox genes after the down-regulation of the pair-rule and gap genes that occurs during larval development. Polycomb-group proteins can silence the Hox...
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chromosomes. An example of a gene cluster is the Hox gene, which is made up of eight genes and is part of the Homeobox gene family. Historically, four models...
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Hox genes play a massive role in some amphibians and reptiles in their ability to regenerate lost limbs, especially HoxA and HoxD genes. If the processes...
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Hox or HOX may refer to: Hox gene Hoxton railway station, in London Joop Hox (born 1949), Dutch psychologist House of X and Powers of X This disambiguation...
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Biology (section Genes and DNA)
genes affect the body plan and the number, identity, and pattern of body parts. Among the most important toolkit genes are the Hox genes. Hox genes determine...
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Antennapedia (category Drosophila melanogaster genes)
ancestor homeobox gene is an important aspect of the evolution of the Antp-class Hox genes. Early evolution of the Antp-class genes may have predated...
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discovered) and humans. Hox genes are a subset of the homeobox genes. The Hox genes are often conserved across species, so some of the Hox genes of Drosophila are...
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Additional evidence for the role that Hox genes play in limb development was found when researchers effected Hox gene expressions in zebrafish by adding...
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The ParaHox gene cluster is an array of homeobox genes (involved in morphogenesis, the regulation of patterns of anatomical development) from the Gsx,...
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organism. Among the most important of the toolkit genes are those of the Hox gene cluster, or complex. Hox genes, transcription factors containing the more broadly...
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noncoding regions. The study, which explored the effects of regulation on the hox genes, initially focused on two enhancer sequences, GCR and Prox, which are...
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known for researching the Hox family of transcription factors. He is most interested in understanding the role of the Hox genes in the hindbrain and their...
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transcription of a nearby gene (including Hox genes and several other target genes). RARs mediate transcription of different sets of genes controlling differentiation...
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HOXB8 (redirect from HOXB8 (gene))
Homeobox protein Hox-B8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXB8 gene. This gene is a member of the Antp homeobox family and encodes a nuclear...
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Sequence homology (redirect from Paralogous genes)
(Hox) genes in animals. These genes not only underwent gene duplications within chromosomes but also whole genome duplications. As a result, Hox genes...
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HOXA11 (redirect from HOXA11 (gene))
Homeobox protein Hox-A11 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXA11 gene. In vertebrates, the genes encoding the class of transcription factors...
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Ciona intestinalis (section Hox genes)
length of the chromosome. Comparisons to Hox gene expression and location in other species suggests that the Hox genes in ascidian genomes are under a dispersing...
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HOXC8 (redirect from HOXC8 (gene))
protein Hox-C8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC8 gene. This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a...
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Homeosis (category Gene expression)
homeobox gene clusters studied by Ed Lewis were named the Hox genes, although many more homeobox genes are encoded by animal genomes than those in the Hox gene...
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role in arthropod embryological development, working in consort with the Hox genes, engrailed has been found to be important in other areas of development...
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Synteny (redirect from Syntenic genes)
reflect important functional relationships between genes. For example, the order of genes in the "Hox cluster", which are key determinants of the animal...
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Homeobox protein CDX-4 (redirect from CDX4 (gene))
function of CDX genes are their role in caudal body formation. Transcription factors of the CDX gene family, in part control Hox gene expression by responding...
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HOXD13 (redirect from HOXD13 (gene))
protein Hox-D13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXD13 gene. This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode...
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HOXB9 (redirect from HOXB9 (gene))
Homeobox protein Hox-B9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXB9 gene. This gene is a member of the Abd-B homeobox family and encodes a protein...
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HOXA2 (redirect from HOXA2 (gene))
Homeobox protein Hox-A2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXA2 gene. In vertebrates, the genes encoding the class of transcription factors...
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HOXB2 (redirect from HOXB2 (gene))
Homeobox protein Hox-B2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXB2 gene. This gene is a member of the Antp homeobox family and encodes a nuclear...
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HOXB1 (redirect from HOXB1 (gene))
protein Hox-B1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXB1 gene. This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a...
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