Evidence of Xist RNA-independent initiation of mouse imprinted X-chromosome inactivation

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7255, 2009, Pages 647-651

  Kalantry, Sundeep ^a,b   Purushothaman, Sonya ^a,b   Bowen, Randall Bryant ^a,b   Starmer, Joshua ^a,b   Magnuson, Terry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA;

CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA; RODENT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME; XIST GENE; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, X-LINKED; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TIME FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 67949089685     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08161     Document Type: Article

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