Chromatin structure and the inheritance of epigenetic information

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 285-296

  Margueron, Raphaël ^a   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 77949678340     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2752     Document Type: Review

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