The paternal allele of the H19 gene is progressively silenced during early mouse development: The acetylation status of histones may be involved in the generation of variegated expression patterns

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-69

  Svensson, Kristian ^a   Mattsson, Ragnar ^a   James, Tharappel C ^a,b   Wentzel, Parri ^c   Pilartz, Marcel ^a   MacLaughlin, John ^d   Miller, Stephen J ^a   Olsson, Tim ^e   Eriksson, Ulf J ^c   Ohlsson, Rolf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Allele specific in situ hybridisation; Gene silencing; Genomic imprinting; H19; Histone; Mouse; Position effect variegation; Trichostatin A

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; INHERITANCE; MALE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ACETYLATION; ALLELES; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031964299     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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