Genomic Imprinting: Intricacies of Epigenetic Regulation in Clusters

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue , 2003, Pages 237-259

  Verona, Raluca I ^a   Mann, Mellissa R W ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; DNA methylation; Insulator; Silencer

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ALLELE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, ANTISENSE; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 0344393087     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.19.111401.092717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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