CTCF maintains differential methylation at the Igf2/H19 locus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 66-69

  Schoenherr, Christopher J ^a   Levorse, John M ^b   Tilghman, Shirley M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS LIVER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BINDING SITES; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SULFITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037228669     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1057     Document Type: Article

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