Unusual maintenance of X chromosome inactivation predisposes female lymphocytes for increased expression from the inactive X

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2016, Pages E2029-E2038

  Wang, Jianle ^a   Syrett, Camille M ^a   Kramer, Marianne C ^b   Basu, Arindam ^a,c   Atchison, Michael L ^a   Anguera, Montserrat C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Female biased autoimmunity; X chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; XIST NON-CODING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84962757129     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520113113     Document Type: Article

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