Silencing by imprinted noncoding RNAs: is transcription the answer?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 284-292

  Pauler, Florian M ^a   Koerner, Martha V ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMATIN; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249099120     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.03.018     Document Type: Review

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