A Primary Role for the Tsix lncRNA in Maintaining Random X-Chromosome Inactivation

Cell Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1251-1265

  Gayen, Srimonta ^a   Maclary, Emily ^a   Buttigieg, Emily ^a   Hinten, Michael ^a   Kalantry, Sundeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE XIST RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TSIX LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TSIX TRANSCRIPT, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIBLAST STEM CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RANDOM X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA COATING; SANGER SEQUENCING; STEM CELL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

EUTHERIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, X-LINKED; MALE; MICE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84929951270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.039     Document Type: Article

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