Long-range cis effects of ectopic X-inactivation centres on a mouse autosome

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6622, 1997, Pages 275-279

  Lee, Jeannie T ^a,b   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HISTONE H4; RNA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 12; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; ERYTHROID-SPECIFIC DNA-BINDING FACTORS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030895047     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386275a0     Document Type: Article

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