A cis-acting control region is required exclusively for the tissue-specific imprinting of Gnas

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 894-899

  Williamson, Christine M ^a   Ball, Simon T ^a   Nottingham, Wade T ^a,d   Skinner, Judith A ^a   Plagge, Antonius ^b   Turner, Martin D ^a   Powles, Nicola ^a   Hough, Tertius ^a   Papworth, David ^a   Fraser, William D ^c   Maconochie, Mark ^a,e   Peters, Jo ^a  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING ALPHA PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CIS ACTING CONTROL REGION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; GNAS GENE; GNASXL GENE; HUMAN; IMPRINTING CONTROL REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 3543006557     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1398     Document Type: Article

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