Functional epialleles at an endogenous human centromere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 13704-13709

  Maloney, Kristin A ^a,b,d   Sullivan, Lori L ^a   Matheny, Justyne E ^a   Strome, Erin D ^a   Merrett, Stephanie L ^a   Ferris, Alyssa ^c   Sullivan, Beth A ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicentric; Epigenetics; Heterochromatin; Kinetochore; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIALLELE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84865293351     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203126109     Document Type: Article

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