Replication timing and transcriptional control: beyond cause and effect-part II

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-149

  Hiratani, Ichiro ^a   Takebayashi, Shin ichiro ^a   Lu, Junjie ^a   Gilbert, David M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; S PHASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 65449142884     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2009.02.002     Document Type: Review

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