Heterochromatin

Chromosoma

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Hennig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032929777     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050346     Document Type: Review

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