Retrotransposon-induced heterochromatin spreading in the mouse revealed by insertional polymorphisms

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Rebollo, Rita ^a,b   Karimi, Mohammad M ^b   Bilenky, Misha ^c   Gagnier, Liane ^a,b   Miceli Royer, Katharine ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Goyal, Preeti ^b   Keane, Thomas M ^d   Jones, Steven ^b,c   Hirst, Martin ^c   Lorincz, Matthew C ^b   Mager, Dixie L ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B3GALTL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY TRANSPOSON; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTRACISTERNAL A TYPE PARTICLE ELEMENT; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEAR ELEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

B3GALTL PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 80053454411     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002301     Document Type: Article

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