Mechanisms of long range silencing by imprinted macro non-coding RNAs

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-289

  Pauler, Florian M ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a   Hudson, Quanah J ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MACRO NON CODING RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AIRN GENE; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EXEL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; KCNQ1OT1 GENE; ML GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; HUMANS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84862495974     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2012.02.005     Document Type: Review

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