Epigenetic turn ons and turn offs: Chromatin reorganization and brain differentiation

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 349-353

  Auger, Anthony P ^a   Auger, Catherine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; STEROID HORMONE;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SHORT SURVEY; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 79951654671     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0793     Document Type: Short Survey

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