Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation during mammalian spermatogenesis

Epigenetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-27

  Khalil, Ahmad M ^a   Wahlestedt, Claes ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Histone modifications; Meiosis; MSCI; Non coding RNAs; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H2AX; HOX PROTEIN; HOXC PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PIRNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL CYCLE ARREST; DEACETYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 42149084976     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.3.1.5555     Document Type: Review

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