The human and mouse H19 imprinting control regions harbor an evolutionarily conserved silencer element that functions on transgenes in Drosophila

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 216, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 811-819

  Arney, Katharine L ^a   Bae, Esther ^b   Olsen, Cory ^c   Drewell, Robert A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis regulation; H19; Igf2; Imprinting; Silencer

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA H19; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 33751234242     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0102-7     Document Type: Article

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