Epigenetic features of the mouse trophoblast

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-30

  Rugg Gunn, Peter J ^a,b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; DNA methylation; epigenetic; histone methylation; placenta; trophoblast

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GIANT CELL; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84863299359     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.01.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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