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Transposable elements: targets for early nutritional effects on epigenetic gene regulation.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Aug 2003
Waterland Robert A, Jirtle Randy L
Abstract excerpt
Early nutrition affects adult metabolism in humans and other mammals, potentially via persistent alterations in DNA methylation. With viable yellow agouti (A(vy)) mice, which harbor a transposable element in the agouti gene, we tested the hypothesis that the metastable methylation status of specific transposable element insertion sites renders them epigenetically labile to early methyl donor nutrition. Our...
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