Transcription is required for establishment of germline methylation marks at imprinted genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-117

  Chotalia, Mita ^a,d   Smallwood, Sebastien A ^a   Ruf, Nico ^a   Dawson, Claire ^a   Lucifero, Diana ^a   Frontera, Marga ^a   James, Katherine ^b   Dean, Wendy ^a   Kelsey, Gavin ^a,c  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Genomic imprinting; Oocytes; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 58149506281     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.495809     Document Type: Article

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