Mechanism of mouse germ cell specification: A genetic program regulating epigenetic reprogramming

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-9

  Surani, M A ^a   Ancelin, K ^a   Hajkova, P ^a   Lange, U C ^a   Payer, B ^a   Western, P ^a,b   Saitou, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c RIKEN KOBE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GERM CELL; MOUSE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS;

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

EID: 22544461994     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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