The establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation patterns in mouse somatic cells

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 329-337

  Turker, Mitchell S ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

De novo methylation; Demethylation; Methylation blocking; Methylation pattern; Methylation spreading

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 0032756518     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1999.0133     Document Type: Article

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