Term Information

Accession
GO:0031453
Name
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
positive regulation of heterochromatin assembly, up regulation of heterochromatin formation, up-regulation of heterochromatin formation, upregulation of heterochromatin formation, activation of heterochromatin formation, stimulation of heterochromatin formation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of heterochromatin formation. Source: GOC:mah
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0031453 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of positive regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031453)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  heterochromatin formation (GO:0031507)
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of heterochromatin organization (GO:0120263)
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of cellular component biogenesis (GO:0044089)
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031445)
Children of positive regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031453)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
positive regulation of pericentric heterochromatin formation (GO:0090053) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of heterochromatin formation
positive regulation of rDNA heterochromatin formation (GO:2000749) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of heterochromatin formation
positive regulation of silent mating-type cassette heterochromatin formation (GO:0090055) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of heterochromatin formation
positive regulation of DNA methylation-dependent heterochromatin formation (GO:0090309) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of heterochromatin formation
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