Epigenetic inheritance at the agouti locus in the mouse

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 314-318

  Morgan, Hugh D ^c   Sutherland, Heidi G E ^a   Martin, David I K ^b   Whitelaw, Emma ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; INHERITANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; GERM CELLS; HAIR COLOR; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032751471     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15490     Document Type: Article

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