Deletion of an X-Inactivation Boundary Disrupts Adjacent Gene Silencing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Horvath, Lindsay M ^a   Li, Nan ^a,b   Carrel, Laura ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; RNA CONFORMATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSGENES; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84888273443     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003952     Document Type: Article

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