Xist yeast artificial chromosome transgenes function as X-inactivation centers only in multicopy arrays and not as single copies

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 3156-3166

  Heard, Edith ^a   Mongelard, Fabien ^b   Arnaud, Danielle ^a   Avner, Philip ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN XIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; GENE MAPPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032958104     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.4.3156     Document Type: Article

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