Visualizing allele-specific expression in single cells reveals epigenetic mosaicism in an H19 loss-of-imprinting mutant

Genes and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 567-578

  Ginart, Paul ^a   Kalish, Jennifer M ^b,c   Jiang, Connie L ^b   Yu, Alice C ^b   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^b   Raj, Arjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Imprinting; Single cell

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B; H19 LONG NON-CODING RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84959478135     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.275958.115     Document Type: Article

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