Do repeated arrays of regulatory small-RNA genes elicit genomic imprinting?: Concurrent emergence of large clusters of small non-coding RNAs and genomic imprinting at four evolutionarily distinct eutherian chromosomal loci

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 565-573

  Labialle, Stéphane ^a,b   Cavaillé, Jérôme ^a,b  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

C19MC; Dlk1 Dio3; Epigenetics; Prader Willi syndrome region (PWS); Sfmbt2

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MAMMALS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960472211     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100032     Document Type: Article

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