A longitudinal twin study of skewed X chromosome-inactivation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wong, Chloe Chung Yi ^a   Caspi, Avshalom ^a,b   Williams, Benjamin ^a,b   Houts, Renate ^b   Craig, Ian W ^a   Mill, Jonathan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TWINS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 79952965189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017873     Document Type: Article

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