DNA methylation profiles define stem cell identity and reveal a tight embryonic-extraembryonic lineage boundary

Stem Cells

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2732-2745

  Senner, Claire E ^a,b   Krueger, Felix ^a   Oxley, David ^a   Andrews, Simon ^a   Hemberger, Myriam ^a,b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early cell lineages; Methylation profiles; Stem cell plasticity; Stem cells of the early embryo

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNMT3B GENE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

PYRONIA TITHONUS;

EID: 84870368555     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1249     Document Type: Article

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