Dosage compensation and nuclear organization: Cluster to control chromosome-wide gene expression

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 9-16

  Sharma, Rahul ^a   Meister, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; NUCLEOPORIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AUTOSOME; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOPOLOGICALLY ASSOCIATED DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84952670880     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.11.007     Document Type: Review

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