The 10q25 neocentromere and its inactive progenitor have identical primary nucleotide sequence: Further evidence for epigenetic modification

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 832-838

  Barry, Alyssa E ^a   Bateman, Melissa ^a   Howman, Emily V ^a   Cancilla, Michael R ^a   Tainton, Kellie M ^a   Irvine, Danielle V ^a   Saffery, Richard ^a   Choo, K H Andy ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; DNA MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STEM CELL;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033933017     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.6.832     Document Type: Article

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