Large-scale population study of human cell lines indicates that dosage compensation is virtually complete

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0088-0098

  Johnston, Colette M ^a   Lovell, Frances L ^a   Leongamornlert, Daniel A ^a   Stranger, Barbara E ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a   Ross, Mark T ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 38949090440     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040009     Document Type: Article

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