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An antisense RNA regulates the bidirectional silencing property of the Kcnq1 imprinting control region.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Sept 2004
Thakur Noopur, Tiwari Vijay Kumar, Thomassin Helene, Pandey Radha Raman, Kanduri Meena, Göndör Anita, Grange Thierry, Ohlsson Rolf, Kanduri Chandrasekhar
Abstract excerpt
The Kcnq1 imprinting control region (ICR) located in intron 10 of the Kcnq1 gene is unmethylated on the paternal chromosome and methylated on the maternal chromosome and has been implicated in the manifestation of parent-of-origin-specific expression of six neighboring genes. The unmethylated Kcnq1 ICR harbors bidirectional silencer activity and drives expression of an antisense RNA, Kcnq1ot1, which overlaps the...
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