The paternal methylation imprint of the mouse H19 locus is acquired in the gonocyte stage during foetal testis development

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 649-659

  Ueda, Takayuki ^a   Abe, Kuniya ^b   Miura, Asuka ^c   Yuzuriha, Misako ^b   Zubair, Mohamad ^d   Noguchi, Motoko ^e   Niwa, Katsutoshi ^e   Kawase, Yosuke ^f   Kono, Tomohiro ^f   Matsuda, Yoichi ^g   Fujimoto, Hirokazu ^h   Shibata, Hideo ⁱ   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ⁱ   Sasaki, Hiroyuki ^c,d  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^g HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

ⁱ RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033874072     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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