A unique gene regulatory network resets the human germline epigenome for development

Cell

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1453-1467

  Tang, Walfred W C ^a,b   Dietmann, Sabine ^b   Irie, Naoko ^a,b   Leitch, Harry G ^b   Floros, Vasileios I ^c   Bradshaw, Charles R ^a   Hackett, Jamie A ^a,b   Chinnery, Patrick F ^c   Surani, M Azim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTOME; RETROPOSON;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROMOTER REGION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, HUMAN; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 84930618214     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.053     Document Type: Article

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