Imprinted Igf2r silencing depends on continuous airn lncRNA expression and is not restricted to a developmental window

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1184-1195

  Santoro, Federica ^a   Mayer, Daniela ^a   Klement, Ruth M ^a   Warczok, Katarzyna E ^a   Stukalov, Alexey ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a   Pauler, Florian M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

ES cell differentiation; Genomic imprinting; Long ncRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AIRN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATERNALISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 2; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84874529746     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.088849     Document Type: Article

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