A mechanistic view of genomic imprinting

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 197-216

  Sha, Ky ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Chromatin; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HISTONE; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; TRITHORAX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

COVALENT BOND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COCCIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SCIARIDAE;

EID: 52949153556     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.122007.110031     Document Type: Review

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