Mammalian X-chromosome inactivation: An epigenetics paradigm

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2004, Pages 89-102

  Heard, E ^a   Chaumeil, J ^a   Masui, O ^a   Okamoto, I ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA;

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOGENETICS; DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; KINETICS; MAMMAL; MARKER CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; XIST GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 23044454769     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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