AmiGO 2: Term Details for "pericentric heterochromatin" (GO:0005721)

Accession: GO:0005721
Name: pericentric heterochromatin
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: centric heterochromatin, centromeric heterochromatin, chromosome, centric outer repeat region, chromosome, centromeric inner repeat region, chromosome, centromeric outer repeat region, nuclear centric heterochromatin, nuclear cluster, nuclear pericentric heterochromatin
Alternate IDs: GO:0034507, GO:0062199, GO:0002137, GO:0031618
Definition: Heterochromatin that is located adjacent to the CENP-A rich centromere 'central core' and characterized by methylated H3 histone at lysine 9 (H3K9me2/H3K9me3). Source: PMID:12019236, PMID:21437270, PMID:9413993, PMID:22729156, PMID:20206496
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005721 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to pericentric heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pericentric heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pericentric heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
pericentric heterochromatin	BFO:0000050	chromosome, centromeric region (GO:0000775)
pericentric heterochromatin	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)
pericentric heterochromatin	is_a	heterochromatin (GO:0000792)

subject	relation	object
protein localization to pericentric heterochromatin (GO:1902682)	RO:0002339	pericentric heterochromatin
alpha-heterochromatin (GO:0005723)	is_a	pericentric heterochromatin
beta-heterochromatin (GO:0005722)	is_a	pericentric heterochromatin

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