Genome-wide chromatin analysis in mature mouse and human spermatozoa

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2449-2470

  Hisano, Mizue ^a,e,f   Erkek, Serap ^a,b,c,e,f   Dessus Babus, Sophie ^a   Ramos, Liliana ^d   Stadler, Michael B ^a,c   Peters, Antoine H F M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Toray Membrane Europe AG   (Switzerland)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INHERITANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEOSOMES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84888369495     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.145     Document Type: Article

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