Human Gene Set: GOBP_CONSTITUTIVE_HETEROCHROMATIN_FORMATION

For the Mouse gene set with the same name, see GOBP_CONSTITUTIVE_HETEROCHROMATIN_FORMATION

Standard name GOBP_CONSTITUTIVE_HETEROCHROMATIN_FORMATION
Systematic name M42991
Brief description The compaction of chromatin into heterochromatin, a conformation that is refractory to transcription. Constitutive heterochromatin cannot be converted back to euchromatin, the transcriptionally-active conformation. In metazoa, this involves the methylation of histone H3K9. [PMID:17936700]
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Collection C5: Ontology
      GO: Gene Ontology
            GO:BP: GO Biological Process
Source publication  
Exact source GO:0140719
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External links http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0140719
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Source species Homo sapiens
Contributed by Gene Ontology (Gene Ontology Consortium)
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identifier namespace		 Human_NCBI_Gene_ID
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