Heterochromatin protein I modifies mammalian PEV in a dose- and chromosomal-context-dependent manner

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 457-461

  Festenstein, Richard ^a,b   Sharghi Namini, Soheila ^a   Fox, Margaret ^c   Roderick, Kathleen ^a   Tolaini, Mauro ^a   Norton, Trisha ^a   Saveliev, Alexander ^a,b   Kioussis, Dimitris ^a   Singh, Prim ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; CBX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CD2 ANTIGEN; HETEROCHROMATIN SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP 1; HETEROCHROMATIN-SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP-1; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD2; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032590004     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70579     Document Type: Article

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