Many X-linked microRNAs escape meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 488-493

  Song, Rui ^a   Ro, Seungil ^a   Michaels, Jason D ^a   Park, Chanjae ^a   Mccarrey, John R ^b   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CODING; EMBRYO CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICRORNAS; SPERMATOCYTES; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 63449134696     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.338     Document Type: Article

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