Female-biased expression of long non-coding RNAs in domains that escape X-inactivation in mouse

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Reinius, Björn ^a   Shi, Chengxi ^b   Hengshuo, Liu ^a   Sandhu, Kuljeet S ^b   Radomska, Katarzyna J ^a   Rosen, Glenn D ^c   Lu, Lu ^d   Kullander, Klas ^e   Williams, Robert W ^d   Jazin, Elena ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HISTONE; LYSINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EYE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENDER BIAS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAME; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 78049325193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-614     Document Type: Article

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