X chromosome regulation: Diverse patterns in development, tissues and disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 367-378

  Deng, Xinxian ^a   Berletch, Joel B ^a   Nguyen, Di K ^a   Disteche, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MOSAICISM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84901029300     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3687     Document Type: Review

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