Concise review: Pluripotency and the transcriptional inactivation of the female mammalian X chromosome

Stem Cells

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-54

  Minkovsky, Alissa ^a   Patel, Sanjeet ^a   Plath, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Nuclear reprogramming; Pluripotent stem cells; Tsix transcript, mouse; X (inactive) specific transcript; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CYTOLOGY; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855402974     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.755     Document Type: Review

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