Long noncoding RNAs, chromatin, and development

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 90-102

  Caley, Daniel P ^a   Pink, Ryan C ^b   Trujillano, Daniel ^c   Carter, David R F ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Development; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; IincRNAs; IncRNAs; Intergenic transcription; Long noncoding RNAs; ncRNAs; Noncoding RNAs; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 77749304234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.7     Document Type: Review

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