Genomic approaches to studying human-specific developmental traits

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 3100-3112

  Franchini, Lucía F ^a   Pollard, Katherine S ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Embryonic cells; Evolution; Genomes; Phenotypic

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN GENOME; INDEL MUTATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84942133275     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.120048     Document Type: Review

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