An enhancer element at the Igf2/H19 locus drives gene expression in both imprinted and non-imprinted tissues

Developmental Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 488-497

  Charalambous, Marika ^a,c   Menheniott, Trevelyan R ^a,f   Bennett, William R ^a,d   Kelly, Sharon M ^a,e   Dell, Ghislaine ^a,e   Dandolo, Luisa ^b   Ward, Andrew ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^c Gastroenterology Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCD; centrally conserved domain; Choroid plexus; differentially methylated domain; DMD; Genomic imprinting; HSS; hypersensitive sites; Igf2; Insulin like growth factor; insulin like growth factor 2; Methylation; Transgenic mice; YAC; yeast artificial chromosome

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B; SPACER DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 3042587417     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.04.022     Document Type: Article

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