Chromatin state maps: new technologies, new insights

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-115

  Mendenhall, Eric M ^a,b,c   Bernstein, Bradley E ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENOME; HUMANS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 44349096486     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.01.010     Document Type: Review

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