Mammalian paramutation: A tail's tale?

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-40

  Arnheiter, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ALLELE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; MAMMALS; MICE; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TAIL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846171962     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00351.x     Document Type: Note

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