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67:. Regions of heterochromatin can spread and influence transcription, which may result in the cessation of gene expression and subsequently, white eye sectors. 158: 85:
that regulate neighboring genes. These local enhancers can also affect the expression pattern of the transgene. Since each
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has the transgene in a different location each transgenic organism has the potential for a unique expression pattern.
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is well characterised by unstable expression of a gene that results in the red eye coloration. In the
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Weiler K, Wakimoto B (1995). "Heterochromatin and gene expression in Drosophila".
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Effect on the expression of a gene when its location in a chromosome is changed
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is also used to describe the variation of expression exhibited by identical
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flies the eyes typically have a mottled appearance of white and red
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Index

expression
gene
chromosome
translocation
Drosophila
position effect variegation
phenotype
mutant
sectors
heterochromatin
transgenes
genome
enhancers
transgenic organism
doi
10.1146/annurev.ge.29.120195.003045
PMID
8825487
"Figure 4-45. Position effects on gene expression in two different eucaryotic organisms"
Molecular biology of the cell
ISBN
0-8153-4072-9
Category
Epigenetics

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