Nuclear origins of cell-to-cell variability

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-94

  Waks, Z ^a   Silver, P A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL TO CELL VARIABILITY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HALF LIFE TIME; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL NUCLEAR STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80052417819     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.027     Document Type: Article

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