Chromatin structure and transposable elements in organismal aging

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Wood, Jason G ^a   Helfand, Stephen L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics of aging; Heterochromatin; Histone modifications; Retrotransposons; RNAi; Silencing; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892429004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00274     Document Type: Review

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