OBSOLETE. Any process that modulates the rate, frequency, or extent of gene silencing, the transcriptional or post-transcriptional process carried out at the cellular level that results in long-term gene inactivation.
Source:
GOC:dph,
GOC:tb
Comment
This term was obsoleted because it was too broadly defined and could not be distinguished from 'GO:0040029 regulation of gene expression, epigenetic'.