X-chromosome upregulation and inactivation: Two sides of the dosage compensation mechanism in mammals

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-28

  Dementyeva, Elena V ^a   Shevchenko, Alexander I ^a   Zakian, Suren M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Mammals; X chromosome; X inactivation; X upregulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OOCYTES; RATS; SPERMATOGENESIS; UP-REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 59849093636     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.080149     Document Type: Review

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