Sensitive flow cytometric analysis reveals a novel type of parent-of-origin effect in the mouse genome

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 955-959

  Preis, Jost I ^a   Downes, Meredith ^a   Oates, Nathan A ^a   Rasko, John E J ^b   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037850970     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00335-X     Document Type: Article

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