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BRCA1 establishes DNA damage signaling and pericentric heterochromatin of the X chromosome in male meiosis.
The Journal of cell biology - 9 Jun 2014
Broering Tyler J, Alavattam Kris G, Sadreyev Ruslan I, Ichijima Yosuke, Kato Yasuko, Hasegawa Kazuteru, Camerini-Otero R Daniel, Lee Jeannie T, Andreassen Paul R, Namekawa Satoshi H
Abstract excerpt
During meiosis, DNA damage response (DDR) proteins induce transcriptional silencing of unsynapsed chromatin, including the constitutively unsynapsed XY chromosomes in males. DDR proteins are also implicated in double strand break repair during meiotic recombination. Here, we address the function...
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