Transcription within a functional human centromere

Molecular Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 509-516

  Saffery, Richard ^a   Sumer, Huseyin ^a   Hassan, Sara ^a   Wong, Lee H ^a   Craig, Jeffrey M ^a   Todokoro, Kazuo ^b   Anderson, Melissa ^a   Stafford, Angela ^a   Choo, K H Andy ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CLONE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HYBRID CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0141888374     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00279-X     Document Type: Article

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