Chromatin remodeling in dosage compensation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 615-651

  Lucchesi, John C ^a   Kelly, William G ^a   Panning, Barbara ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Transcription; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; MAMMALS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 29444458753     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.094210     Document Type: Review

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