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Syndromes of disordered chromatin remodeling.
Clinical genetics - 1 Aug 2003
Ausió J, Levin D B, De Amorim G V, Bakker S, Macleod P M
Abstract excerpt
Syndromes of disordered 'chromatin remodeling' are unique in medicine because they arise from a general deregulation of DNA transcription caused by mutations in genes encoding enzymes which mediate changes in chromatin structure. Chromatin is the packaged form of DNA in the eukaryotic cell. It consists almost entirely of repeating units, called nucleosomes, in which short segments of DNA are wrapped tightly...
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