X-chromosome inactivation

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1999, Pages

  Lyon, Mary F ^a  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA; X (INACTIVE) SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST); X (INACTIVE)-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST);

ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033535478     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80151-1     Document Type: Article

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