Epigenetics of imprinted long noncoding RNAs

Epigenetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 277-286

  Mohammad, Faizaan ^a   Mondal, Tanmoy ^a   Kanduri, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Genomic imprinting; Kcnq1ot1; Noncoding RNA; X chromosome inactivation; Xist

Indexed keywords

AIR RNA; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 2; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 3; PROTEIN KCNQ1OT1; RNA POLYMERASE II; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIST PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79959355182     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.4.5.9242     Document Type: Article

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