Cohesin is required for higher-order chromatin conformation at the imprinted IGF2-H19 locus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Nativio, Raffaella ^a   Wendt, Kerstin S ^b,e   Ito, Yoko ^a   Huddleston, Joanna E ^a   Uribe Lewis, Santiago ^a   Woodfine, Kathryn ^a   Krueger, Christel ^c   Reik, Wolf ^c,d   Peters, Jan Michael ^b   Murrell, Adele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COHESINS; DNA; IGF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RNA H19; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; H19 GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 73649145481     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000739     Document Type: Article

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