Chromosome territories, nuclear architecture and gene regulation in mammalian cells

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 292-301

  Cremer, T ^a,b   Cremer, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 0035316574     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35066075     Document Type: Review

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