Dosage compensation and the global re-balancing of aneuploid genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Prestel, Matthias ^a   Feller, Christian ^a   Becker, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; DIPLOIDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMIZYGOSITY; MONOSOMY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 77958167961     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-8-216     Document Type: Review

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