Expression and epigenomic landscape of the sex chromosomes in mouse post-meiotic male germ cells

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-18

  Moretti, Charlotte ^a,b,c   Vaiman, Daniel ^a,b,c   Tores, Frederic ^d   Cocquet, Julie ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d IMAGINE INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome 14; Crotonylation; H3K27ac; H3K4me3; H3K9me3; Mouse; MSCI; Post meiotic sex chromatin; Sex chromosomes; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 27; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 4; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 9; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H4 LYSINE 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE LYSINE CROTONYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SEX CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; POST MEIOTIC SEX CHROMATIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84994742154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0099-8     Document Type: Article

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