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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
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History
See term history for GO:0005721 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
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Parents of pericentric heterochromatin (GO:0005721)
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pericentric heterochromatin [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  chromosome, centromeric region (GO:0000775)
pericentric heterochromatin [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin (GO:0000792)
Children of pericentric heterochromatin (GO:0005721)
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protein localization to pericentric heterochromatin (GO:1902682) [RO:0002339 relation] RO:0002339  pericentric heterochromatin
alpha-heterochromatin (GO:0005723) [is_a relation] is_a  pericentric heterochromatin
beta-heterochromatin (GO:0005722) [is_a relation] is_a  pericentric heterochromatin
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