The quantitative architecture of centromeric chromatin

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Bodor, Dani L ^a   Mata, João F ^a   Sergeev, Mikhail ^b,c   David, Ana Filipa ^a   Salimian, Kevan J ^d   Panchenko, Tanya ^d   Cleveland, Don W ^e,f   Black, Ben E ^d   Shah, Jagesh V ^b,c   Jansen, Lars E T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; AUTOANTIGEN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CHROMATIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOSOME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; YEAST; ALLELE; CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; METABOLISM;

ALLELES; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DIPLOIDY; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84904431218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02137     Document Type: Article

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