Analysis of Active and Inactive X Chromosome Architecture Reveals the Independent Organization of 30 nm and Large-Scale Chromatin Structures

Molecular Cell

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-409

  Naughton, Catherine ^a   Sproul, Duncan ^a   Hamilton, Charlotte ^a   Gilbert, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78149433663     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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