Applications of the site-specific recombinase Cre to the study of genomic imprinting

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 281-293

  Oh McGinnis, Rosemary ^a,b   Jones, Meaghan J ^a,b   Lefebvre, Louis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Molecular Epigenetics Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome engineering; Cre loxP system; Genomic imprinting

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME IMPRINTING; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 77955348877     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elq017     Document Type: Article

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