Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 857-862

  Huynh, Khanh O ^a   Lee, Jeannie T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

GENE ACTIVATION;

GENES;

CHROMOSOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347357614     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02222     Document Type: Article

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