Sperm is epigenetically programmed to regulate gene transcription in embryos

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1034-1046

  Teperek, Marta ^a,b   Simeone, Angela ^a,b   Gaggioli, Vincent ^a,b   Miyamoto, Kei ^a,b   Allen, George E ^a   Erkek, Serap ^c,d,f   Kwon, Taejoon ^e   Marcotte, Edward M ^e   Zegerman, Philip ^a,b   Bradshaw, Charles R ^a   Peters, Antoine H F M ^c,d   Gurdon, John B ^a,b   Jullien, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; RANIDAE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; RANIDAE; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84983001834     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.201541.115     Document Type: Article

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