Asymmetric regulation of imprinting on the maternal and paternal chromosomes at the Dlk1-Gtl2 imprinted cluster on mouse chromosome 12

Nature Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-102

  Lin, Shau Ping ^a   Youngson, Neil ^a   Takada, Shuji ^a,d   Seitz, Hervé ^b   Reik, Wolf ^c   Paulsen, Martina ^a,e   Cavaille, Jerome ^b   Ferguson Smith, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042856381     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1233     Document Type: Article

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