Monoallelic expression of reactivated imprinted genes in embryonal carcinoma cell hybrids

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 416-422

  Forejt, Jiří ^a   Saam, Jennifer R ^b   Gregorová, Soňa ^a   Tilghman, Shirley M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell hybrids; DNA methylation; Gene reactivation; Genomic imprinting; H19; Igf2; U2af1 rs1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HYBRID CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033230193     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4627     Document Type: Article

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