Temporal uncoupling of the DNA methylome and transcriptional repression during embryogenesis

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1313-1327

  Bogdanović, Ozren ^a   Long, Steven W ^b   Van Heeringen, Simon J ^a   Brinkman, Arie B ^a   Gómez Skarmeta, Jose Luis ^c   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^a   Jones, Peter L ^b   Veenstra, Gert Jan C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLOME; HISTONE H3; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; ORGANOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 80051558092     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.114843.110     Document Type: Article

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