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The paradox of functional heterochromatin.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Jan 2005

Dimitri Patrizio, Corradini Nicoletta, Rossi Fabrizio, Vernì Fiammetta

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Although heterochromatin has been studied for 80 years, its genetic function and molecular organization have remained elusive. In almost all organisms, heterochromatin has been regarded as genetically inactive chromosome regions. However, from genetic and genomic studies in Drosophila melanogaster and other organisms including humans, it is now clear that transcriptionally active domains are present within...

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PMID: 15612038
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20158

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