Genome-wide analysis of genetic and epigenetic control of programmed DNA deletion

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 8970-8983

  Swart, Estienne C ^a   Wilkes, Cyril Denby ^b,c   Sandoval, Pamela Y ^a   Arambasic, Miroslav ^a   Sperling, Linda ^b,c   Nowacki, Mariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IESRNA; RNA; SCNRNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOGAMY; DCL2 GENE; DCL3 GENE; DCL5 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PGM GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PARAMECIUM; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84906234268     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku619     Document Type: Article

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