Specific Studies of Gene Silencing
There are several more terms related to specific topics of gene silencing:
Transcriptional Gene Silencing:
- Genomic Imprinting
- Paramutation
- Transposon silencing
- Transgene silencing
- Transcriptional gene silencing
- position effect
- RNA-directed DNA methylation
Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing:
- RNA interference
- Nonsense mediated decay
Meiotic gene silencing:
- Transvection
- Meiotic silencing of unpaired DNA
Cellular components of gene silencing:
- Histones
- Chromatin and heterochromatin
- MicroRNA
- siRNA
- dsRNA
- Dicer
- Transposons
Ribozyme and antisense technology are the two approaches used to exact post transcriptional gene silencing in order to suppress a gene of interest.
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