The use of mouse models to study epigenetics

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Blewitt, Marnie ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI; MURINAE; MUS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RECESSIVE GENE; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84881066832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017939     Document Type: Article

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