Chromatin "pre-pattern" and epigenetic modulation in the cell fate choice of liver over pancreas in the endoderm

Nucleus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Cheng Ran ^a   Zaret, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Competence; Endoderm; Histone marks; Liver; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIGENETICS; LIVER; PANCREAS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

EID: 84859524889     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.3.2.19321     Document Type: Article

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