Human postmeiotic sex chromatin and its impact on sex chromosome evolution

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 827-836

  Sin, Ho Su ^a,b   Ichijima, Yosuke ^a,b   Koh, Eitetsu ^c   Namiki, Mikio ^c   Namekawa, Satoshi H ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID; X CHROMATIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84860595083     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.135046.111     Document Type: Article

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