Genomic imprinting mechanisms in mammals

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 647, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 77-85

  Ideraabdullah, Folami Y ^a   Vigneau, Sebastien ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic imprinting; Imprinted X inactivation; Insulators; Non coding RNAs

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 55949131420     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2008.08.008     Document Type: Review

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