Structural and functional dynamics of human centromeric chromatin

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 301-313

  Schueler, Mary G ^a   Sullivan, Beth A ^b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

satellite; Centromere; Cohesion; Epigenetic; Heterochromatin; Histone; Kinetochore; Methylation

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID;

BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; DNA, SATELLITE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; HUMANS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33750353597     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.7.080505.115613     Document Type: Review

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