Silencing of the mammalian X chromosome

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-92

  Chow, Jennifer C ^a   Yen, Ziny ^a   Ziesche, Sonia M ^a   Brown, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Heterochromatin; Sex chromosomes; X chromosome; XIST

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOMATIC CELL; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PSEUDOGENES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 25844492496     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.6.080604.162350     Document Type: Review

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