Compact chromatin packaging of inactive X chromosome involves the actively transcribed Xist gene

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 606-610

  Endo, Yoshio ^a   Watanabe, Takuya ^a   Mishima, Yukio ^a   Yoshimura, Akira ^a   Takagi, Nobuo ^b   Kominami, Ryo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA METHYLATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032769062     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359901054     Document Type: Article

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