Xist RNA and the mechanism of X chromosome inactivation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 233-278

  Plath, Kathrin ^a   Mlynarczyk Evans, Susanna ^a   Nusinow, Dmitri A ^a   Panning, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Dosage compensation; Facultative heterochromatin; Imprinting; Tsix RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; MICE; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036948659     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.042902.092433     Document Type: Review

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