2 Is X-chromosome inactivation a homology effect?

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-48

  Lee, Jeannie T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA; X (INACTIVE) SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST); X (INACTIVE)-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST);

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MALE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA STABILITY; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036360043     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(02)46003-8     Document Type: Review

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