Epigenetic functions of smchd1 repress gene clusters on the inactive x chromosome and on autosomes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3150-3165

  Gendrel, Anne Valerie ^a,b   Tang, Y Amy ^c,d   Suzuki, Masako ^e   Godwin, Jonathan ^a   Nesterova, Tatyana B ^a   Greally, John M ^e   Heard, Edith ^b   Brockdorff, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PURKINJE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84881287607     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00145-13     Document Type: Article

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