A 5' 2-kilobase-pair region of the imprinted mouse H19 gene exhibits exclusive paternal methylation throughout development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 4322-4329

  Tremblay, Kimberly D ^a   Duran, Kristen L ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030802395     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.8.4322     Document Type: Article

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