Strategies for dissecting epigenetic mechanisms in the mouse

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1194-1200

  Mager, Jesse ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL LINEAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENOME; GENOMICS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOMICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27644506591     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1664     Document Type: Review

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