X Inactivation Counting and Choice Is a Stochastic Process: Evidence for Involvement of an X-Linked Activator

Cell

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-421

  Monkhorst, Kim ^a   Jonkers, Iris ^a   Rentmeester, Eveline ^a   Grosveld, Frank ^a   Gribnau, Joost ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO; STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; TETRAPLOIDY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 38849194689     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.12.036     Document Type: Article

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