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Return of the H-word (heterochromatin)
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. alohe@oeb.harvard.edu
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
Recent advances in studies of yeast, Drosophila and humans have renewed interest in heterochromatin. These recent studies have demonstrated the interspersion and rapid spread of transposable elements into Drosophila heterochromatin; documented the requirement of heterochromatic genes for heterochromatin; identified heterochromatin-like regions in yeast chromosomes; confirmed an important role for satellite DNA in human centromere function; and suggested potential functions for heterochromatin-associated proteins.