Role of the region 3' to Xist exon 6 in the counting process of X- chromosome inactivation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-253

  Clerc, Philippe ^a   Avner, Philip ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DELETION MUTANT; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEM CELL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031832579     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/924     Document Type: Article

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