Comprehensive analysis of heterochromatin- and RNAi-mediated epigenetic control of the fission yeast genome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 809-819

  Cam, Hugh P ^a   Sugiyama, Tomoyasu ^a   Chen, Ee Sin ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   FitzGerald, Peter C ^a   Grewal, Shiv I S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIGENETICS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 23044498502     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1602     Document Type: Article

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