Forty years of decoding the silence in X-chromosome inactivation

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 2225-2232

  Boumil, R M ^a   Lee, J T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE; PROTEIN TSIX; PROTEIN XIST; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MAMMAL; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN VARIANT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SILENCER GENE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

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

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035473989     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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