X-chromosome inactivation in mammals

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 571-610

  Heard, Edith ^a   Clerc, Philippe ^a   Avner, Philip ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; X controlling element (Xce); X inactivation; X inactivation center (Xic); Xist

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SILENT GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031467130     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.31.1.571     Document Type: Review

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