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SUBMITTER: Vaskova EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913780 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vaskova Evgeniya A EA Dementyeva Elena V EV Shevchenko Alexander I AI Pavlova Sophia V SV Grigor'eva Elena V EV Zhelezova Antonina I AI Vandeberg John L JL Zakian Suren M SM
PloS one 20140204 2
In rodent female mammals, there are two forms of X-inactivation - imprinted and random which take place in extraembryonic and embryonic tissues, respectively. The inactive X-chromosome during random X-inactivation was shown to contain two types of facultative heterochromatin that alternate and do not overlap. However, chromatin structure of the inactive X-chromosome during imprinted X-inactivation, especially at early stages, is still not well understood. In this work, we studied chromatin modif ...[more]