Dosage-dependent gene regulation in multicellular eukaryotes: Implications for dosage compensation, aneuploid syndromes, and quantitative traits

Developmental Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-288

  Birchler, James A ^a   Bhadra, Utpal ^a   Bhadra, Manika Pal ^a   Auger, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Dosage compensation; Dosage effects; Gene regulation; Quantitative traits; Sex chromosomes; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANEUPLOIDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0035875867     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0262     Document Type: Review

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