The evolution of the DLK1-DIO3 imprinted domain in mammals

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1292-1305

  Edwards, Carol A ^a   Mungall, Andrew J ^b   Matthews, Lucy ^b   Ryder, Edward ^a   Gray, Dionne J ^a   Pask, Andrew J ^c   Shaw, Geoffrey ^c   Graves, Jennifer A M ^d   Rogers, Jane ^b   Dunham, Ian ^b   Renfree, Marilyn B ^c   Ferguson Smith, Anne C ^a   Bateman, Alex ^b   Chen, Chao Kung ^b   Collins, John ^b   Gilbert, James ^b   Huckle, Elizabeth ^b   Griffith Jones, Sam ^b   Harrow, Jennifer ^b   Jones, Matthew ^b   Larbaoui, Mustapha ^b   Oliver, Karen ^b   Scott, Carol ^b   Sims, Sarah ^b   Steward, Charles ^b   Yang, Jennie ^b   Smits, Guillaume ^e   Andrews, Simon ^e   Beury, Delphine ^e   Krueger, Christel ^e   Ivanova, Elena ^e   McKendrick, Iain ^e   Smith, Paul ^e   Kelsey, Gavin ^e   Reik, Wolf ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MICRORNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; DLK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN; RTL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIO3 GENE; DLK1 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EUTHERIAN MAMMAL; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; METATHERIAN MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLATYPUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTOTHERIAN MAMMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAMMAR WALLABY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PROTOTHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS;

EID: 45849118721     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060135     Document Type: Article

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