A genetic analysis of chromosome territory looping: Diverse roles for distal regulatory elements

Chromosome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 513-525

  Ragoczy, Tobias ^a   Telling, Agnes ^a   Sawado, Tomoyuki ^a   Groudine, Mark ^a,b   Kosak, Steven T ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

globin; Centromeric heterochromatin; Chromosome territory; Heterochromatin; IgH; Locus control region (LCR)

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; ERYTHROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MURINAE;

EID: 0042378999     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024939130361     Document Type: Article

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