DNA methylation: Roles in mammalian development

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-220

  Smith, Zachary D ^a,b,c   Meissner, Alexander ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DIOXYGENASE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TET DIOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEMATOPOIESIS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAMMAL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GERM CELLS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84874194072     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3354     Document Type: Review

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