A view through the clouds of imprinting

FASEB Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1694-1703

  Burns, Jason L ^a   Jackson, Dean A ^b   Hassan, A Bassim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary; Chromatin; Insulin like growth factor II; Transcription cycles; Transcription factories

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLELE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENZYMES, IMMOBILIZED; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034907812     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.010085rev     Document Type: Review

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