Gene density and chromosome territory shape

Chromosoma

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 499-513

  Sehgal, Nitasha ^a   Fritz, Andrew J ^a   Morris, Kristen ^a   Torres, Irianna ^a   Chen, Zihe ^a   Xu, Jinhui ^a   Berezney, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; RELATIVE DENSITY;

CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

EID: 84929505849     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0480-y     Document Type: Article

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