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Term regulation of pericentric heterochromatin formation ID (Ontology) GO:0090052 (Gene Ontology)
Definition Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of heterochromatin formation at the centromere. Chromatin silencing at the centromere is the repression of transcription of centromeric DNA by altering the structure of chromatin.
Also Known As"regulation of chromatin silencing at centromere" ; "regulation of pericentric heterochromatin assembly"
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     involved_in | regulation of pericentric heterochromatin formation
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regulation of gene expression
 |__regulation of heterochromatin formation__
heterochromatin formation                    |
 |__regulation of heterochromatin formation__|
regulation of heterochromatin organization   |
 |__regulation of heterochromatin formation__|
constitutive heterochromatin formation       |
 |__pericentric heterochromatin formation____|
                                             regulation of pericentric heterochromatin formation  2 rec.
                                              |__positive regulation of pericentric heterochromatin formation 1 rec.
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