A region of euchromatin coincides with an extensive tandem repeat on the mouse (Mus musculus) inactive X chromosome

Chromosome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 335-350

  Darrow, Emily M ^a   Seberg, Andrew P ^a   Das, Sunny ^a   Figueroa, Debbie M ^a   Sun, Zhuo ^a   Moseley, Shawn C ^a   Chadwick, Brian P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Euchromatin and heterochromatin; H3K4me2; Inactive X chromosome; Mouse X chromosome; Tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; LYSINE;

3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOUSE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84906057642     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-014-9424-x     Document Type: Article

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