Germ-line passage is required for establishment of methylation and expression patterns of imprinted but not of nonimprinted genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1008-1020

  Tucker, Kerry Lee ^a,b   Beard, Caroline ^a   Dausman, Jessica ^a   Jackson Grusby, Laurie ^a   Laird, Peter W ^a,d   Lei, Hong ^c   Li, En ^c   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase; genomic imprinting; H19; Igf2; Igf2r; Xist

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0029935327     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.8.1008     Document Type: Article

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