Epigenetic reprogramming: Enforcer or enabler of developmental fate?

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 483-491

  Combes, Alexander N ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

development; DNA methylation; epigenetics; histone modification; reprogramming

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; ECTODERM; EPIGENETICS; GENOME; GERM LINE; INNER CELL MASS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GERM CELL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GERM CELLS; MICE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954899586     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2010.01185.x     Document Type: Review

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