Imprinted genes show unique patterns of sequence conservation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hutter, Barbara ^a,b   Bieg, Matthias ^a   Helms, Volkhard ^a   Paulsen, Martina ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEAMINATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; EXON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

EUTHERIA;

CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 78650808129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-649     Document Type: Article

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