Dynamics of Response to Asynapsis and Meiotic Silencing in Spermatocytes from Robertsonian Translocation Carriers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Naumova, Anna K ^a,b   Fayer, Shawn ^a   Leung, Jacky ^a   Boateng, Kingsley A ^c   Camerini Otero, R Daniel ^c   Taketo, Teruko ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3.3S31; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ASYNAPSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SILENCING; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SPERMATOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOCYTES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84884172289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075970     Document Type: Article

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