Parental epigenetic control of embryogenesis: A balance between inheritance and reprogramming?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 387-396

  Gill, Mark E ^a   Erkek, Serap ^a,b   Peters, Antoine H F M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H3; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NUCLEOPLASMIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE CONTROL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; ONCOGENE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENOMICS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MAMMALS; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861977733     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.03.002     Document Type: Review

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