Reprogramming the methylome: Erasing memory and creating diversity

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 710-719

  Lee, Heather J ^a,b   Hore, Timothy A ^a   Reik, Wolf ^a,b,c  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3L; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS;

EID: 84902197893     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.05.008     Document Type: Review

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