Dosage compensation in mammals: Fine-tuning the expression of the X chromosome

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1848-1867

  Heard, Edith ^a   Disteche, Christine M ^b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Epigenetics; Imprinting; Monoallelic regulation; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746069681     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1422906     Document Type: Review

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