A set of genes critical to deèelopment is epigenetically poised in mouse germ cells from fetal stages through completion of meiosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 16061-16066

  Lesch, Bluma J ^a   Dokshin, Gregoriy A ^a,b   Young, Richard A ^a,b   McCarrey, John R ^c   Page, Daèid C ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; Spermatogenesis; Totipotency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TOTIPOTENCY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84885038864     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315204110     Document Type: Article

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