The marks, mechanisms and memory of epigenetic states in mammals

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 356, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-10

  Rakyan, Vardhman K ^a   Preis, Jost ^a   Morgan, Hugh D ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Inheritance; Methylation

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DNA; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENETIC LINKAGE;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CELL DNA; CYTOSINE;

CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035874481     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3560001     Document Type: Review

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