Genome imprinting regulated by the mouse Polycomb group protein Eed

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 502-507

  Mager, Jesse ^a,b   Montgomery, Nathan D ^a,b   De Villena, Fernando Pardo Manuel ^a,b   Magnuson, Terry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC ECTODERM DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFITES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037381174     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1125     Document Type: Article

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