Genomic imprinting: The emergence of an epigenetic paradigm

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 565-575

  Ferguson Smith, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960530899     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3032     Document Type: Review

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