Fifty years of x-inactivation research

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5049-5055

  Gendrel, Anne Valerie ^a   Heard, Edith ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; X chromosome; X inactivation hypothesis; Xist

Indexed keywords

TSIX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; XIC; XIST;

ALLELE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST REGULATORY NETWORK;

ANIMALS; GENES, X-LINKED; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MICE; RESEARCH; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80755185112     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.068320     Document Type: Review

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