Immunostaining of modified histones defines high-level features of the human metaphase epigenome

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Terrenoire, Edith ^a,b   McRonald, Fiona ^a   Halsall, John A ^a   Page, Paula ^b   Illingworth, Robert S ^c,d   Taylor, A Malcolm R ^a   Davison, Val ^b   O'Neill, Laura P ^a   Turner, Bryan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; FIBROBLAST; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 78149443149     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-11-r110     Document Type: Article

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