Regulation of CpG methylation by Dnmt and Tet in pluripotent stem cells
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Regulation of CpG methylation by Dnmt and Tet in pluripotent stem cells
Vertebrate genomes are highly methylated at cytosine residues in CpG sequences. CpG methylation plays an important role in epigenetic gene silencing and genome stability. Compared with other epigenetic modifications, CpG methylation is thought to be relatively stable; however, it is sometimes affected by environmental changes, leading to epigenetic instability and disease. CpG methylation is re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Reproduction and Development
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0916-8818,1348-4400
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.2016-046