Chromatin Remodelling in Mammalian Oocytes

Oogenesis: The Universal Process

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 447-478

  De La Fuente, Rabindranath ^a   Baumann, Claudia ^a   Yang, Feikun ^a   Viveiros, Maria M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; ATRX; Chromosome instability; Epigenetic modifications; Epigenetic reprogramming; Germ cells; LSH; Meiosis; Pericentric heterochromatin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866293882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470687970.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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