CpG islands as genomic footprints of promoters that are associated with replication origins

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 1999, Pages

  Antequera, Francisco ^a   Bird, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Inst of Cell and Molecular Biology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033539168     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80418-7     Document Type: Article

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