The demoiselle of X-inactivation: 50 years old and as trendy and mesmerising as ever

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Morey, Céline ^a   Avner, Philip ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; X (INACTIVE) SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST); X (INACTIVE)-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST);

CELL COUNT; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOSOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; RNA PROBE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTORY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 79960953769     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002212     Document Type: Review

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