Dynamic interplay and function of multiple noncoding genes governing X chromosome inactivation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1859, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 112-120

  Yue, Minghui ^a,b   Charles Richard, John Lalith ^a,b   Ogawa, Yuya ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Long noncoding RNA; X chromosome inactivation; Xist

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; HISTONE; XIST NON-CODING RNA;

ALLELE; AUTOSOME; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSS LINKING; DEACETYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; TOPOLOGICALLY ASSOCIATING DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84953357951     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.07.015     Document Type: Review

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