Imprinting defects on human chromosome 15

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 292-299

  Horsthemke, B ^a   Buiting, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MICRODELETION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EPIMUTATION; ERROR; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FATHER; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMPRINTING CENTER; IMPRINTING DEFECT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATERNAL CHROMOSOME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL CHROMOSOME; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STOCHASTIC ERROR; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; SEQUENCE DELETION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33645455075     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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