Macrosatellite epigenetics: The two faces of DXZ4 and D4Z4

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 675-681

  Chadwick, Brian P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; PROTEIN D4Z4; PROTEIN DXZ4; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 70450224476     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-009-0233-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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