Retrotransposon silencing by DNA methylation can drive mammalian genomic imprinting

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Suzuki, Shunsuke ^a   Ono, Ryuichi ^a   Narita, Takanori ^b   Pask, Andrew J ^c   Shaw, Geoffrey ^c   Wang, Changshan ^a   Kohda, Takashi ^a   Alsop, Amber E ^d   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^d   Kohara, Yuji ^b   Ishino, Fumitoshi ^a   Renfree, Marilyn B ^c   Kaneko Ishino, Tomoko ^e  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FETUS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 10; PLATYPUS; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTION; RETROPOSON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KANGAROO; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; PROTOTHERIA; THERIA;

PEG10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 34250660148     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030055     Document Type: Article

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