Chromatin as a tool for the study of genome function in cancer

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 983, Issue , 2003, Pages 5-21

  Urnov, Fyodor D ^a  

^a SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNAse I hypersensitive site; Epigenome; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0037354608     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb05958.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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