Obsolete Term Information

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Accession
GO:0016458
Name
obsolete gene silencing
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
OBSOLETE. Any process carried out at the cellular level that results in either long-term transcriptional repression via action on chromatin structure or RNA mediated, post-transcriptional repression of gene expression. Source: GOC:dph, GOC:tb, GOC:jid, GOC:dos
Comment
This term was obsoleted because its definition was too broad, and not distinct from 'GO:0045814 negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic'.
consider: GO:0010629
consider: GO:0031507
History
See term history for GO:0016458 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
None
Subset
None
Include "regulates"
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