Dnmt3a is essential for hematopoietic stem cell differentiation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-31

  Challen, Grant A ^a,b   Sun, Deqiang ^a   Jeong, Mira ^a,b   Luo, Min ^a   Jelinek, Jaroslav ^c   Berg, Jonathan S ^a,d   Bock, Christoph ^e,f   Vasanthakumar, Aparna ^g   Gu, Hongcang ^c   Xi, Yuanxin ^a   Liang, Shoudan ^c   Lu, Yue ^c   Darlington, Gretchen J ^a   Meissner, Alexander ^e,f   Issa, Jean Pierre J ^c   Godley, Lucy A ^g   Li, Wei ^a   Goodell, Margaret A ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Harvard University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION;

EID: 84555207349     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.1009     Document Type: Article

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