A repetitive elements perspective in Polycomb epigenetics

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Casa, Valentina ^a,b   Gabellini, Davide ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

FSHD muscular dystrophy; Non protein coding RNA; Nuclear structure; Polycomb; Repeats

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876116910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00199     Document Type: Article

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