Evidence against a looped structure of the inactive human X-chromosome territory

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-196

  Dietzel, Steffen ^a   Eils, Roland ^a   Sätzler, Kurt ^a   Bornfleth, Harald ^a   Jauch, Anna ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^a   Cremer, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 0031826133     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1998.3934     Document Type: Article

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