Xist expression from an Xist YAC transgene carried on the mouse Y chromosome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 451-459

  Matsuura, S ^a   Episkopou, V ^a   Hamvas, Renata ^b   Brown, S D M ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC Mouse Genome Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029968489     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.4.451     Document Type: Article

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