Comparative analysis of the primate X-inactivation center region and reconstruction of the ancestral primate XIST locus

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 850-862

  Horvath, Julie E ^a   Sheedy, Christina B ^a   Merrett, Stephanie L ^a   Diallo, Abdoulaye Banire ^b   Swofford, David L ^a   Green, Eric D ^c   Willard, Huntington F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GENOMIC RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDEL MUTATION; LEMURIDAE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; TARGETED GENE REPAIR; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEMUR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79957966433     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.111849.110     Document Type: Article

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