Mechanisms and consequences of widespread random monoallelic expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 421-428

  Chess, Andrew ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 14; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOM MONOALLELIC EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861234288     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3239     Document Type: Review

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