Escape from X inactivation

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 36-43

  Disteche, C M ^a   Filippova, G N ^b   Tsuchiya, K D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0344099539     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071572     Document Type: Review

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