Monozygotic Twins Reveal Germline Contribution to Allelic Expression Differences

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1357-1360

  Cheung, Vivian G ^a   Bruzel, Alan ^a   Burdick, Joshua T ^a   Morley, Michael ^a   Devlin, James L ^a   Spielman, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44449149683     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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