Transient transcription in the early embryo sets an epigenetic state that programs postnatal growth

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 110-118

  Greenberg, Maxim V C ^a   Glaser, Juliane ^a   Borsos, Máté ^a,c   Marjou, Fatima El ^a   Walter, Marius ^a   Teissandier, Aurélie ^a,b   Bourc'his, Déborah ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LIZ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZDBF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHROMATIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GPR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; HISTONE METHYLATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 84995503981     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3718     Document Type: Article

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