Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1823-1831

  Turner, James M A ^a  

^a MRC NIMR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HISTONE H2A;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34250626425     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.000018     Document Type: Article

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