Testing the position-effect variegation hypothesis for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy by analysis of histone modification and gene expression in subtelomeric 4q

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2909-2921

  Jiang, Guanchao ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   van Overveld, Peter G M ^b   Vedanarayanan, Vettaikorumakankav ^c   van der Maarel, Silvere ^b   Ehrlich, Melanie ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE;

ACETYLATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CIS ISOMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; EUCHROMATIN; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ACETYLATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, DOMINANT; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; PENIS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SKIN; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345227304     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg323     Document Type: Article

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