Xist RNA is associated with the transcriptionally inactive XY body in mammalian male meiosis

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Ayoub, Nabieh ^a   Richler, Carmelit ^a   Wahrman, Jacob ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; EVOLUTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030804089     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050218     Document Type: Article

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