X-inactivation patterns in monozygotic and dizygotic female twins

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 205-208

  Goodship, Judith ^a,b   Carter, Joan ^a   Burn, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Human Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

monozygotic twins; twins; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HPAII; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030042952     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960122)61:3<205::AID-AJMG3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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