DNA methylation dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the germline and preimplantation embryos

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 812-828

  Messerschmidt, Daniel M ^a   Knowles, Barbara B ^b,c   Solter, Davor ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Development; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Reprogramming

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; REPROGRAMMING;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING;

EID: 84898892512     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.234294.113     Document Type: Review

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