X-inactivation profile reveals extensive variability in X-linked gene expression in females

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7031, 2005, Pages 400-404

  Carrel, Laura ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES;

DIMORPHIC TRAITS; MAMMALS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; X CHROMOSOMES;

GENES;

GENETICS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; ALLELE; CPG ISLAND; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; X (INACTIVE) SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST); X (INACTIVE)-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST);

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CPG ISLANDS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 15244353967     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03479     Document Type: Article

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