Imprinting on distal chromosome 7 in the placenta involves repressive histone methylation independent of DNA methylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1291-1295

  Lewis, Annabelle ^a   Mitsuya, Kohzoh ^a,b   Umlauf, David ^c   Smith, Paul ^a   Dean, Wendy ^a   Walter, Joern ^d   Higgins, Michael ^e   Feil, Robert ^c   Reik, Wolf ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9644266664     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1468     Document Type: Article

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