Multiple Mechanisms Regulate Imprinting of the Mouse Distal Chromosome 7 Gene Cluster
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Multiple mechanisms regulate imprinting of the mouse distal chromosome 7 gene cluster.
Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic process that results in the preferential silencing of one of the two parental copies of a gene. Although the precise mechanisms by which genomic imprinting occurs are unknown, the tendency of imprinted genes to exist in chromosomal clusters suggests long-range regulation through shared regulatory elements. We characterize a 800-kb region on the distal end of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular and Cellular Biology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0270-7306,1098-5549
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.6.3466