The function of non-coding RNAs in genomic imprinting

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1771-1783

  Koerner, Martha V ^a   Pauler, Florian M ^a   Huang, Ru ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 2; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; RNA; RNA H19; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BLASTOCYST; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 69549128557     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.030403     Document Type: Review

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