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An N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea mutagenesis screen for epigenetic mutations in the mouse.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2003
Percec Ivona, Thorvaldsen Joanne L, Plenge Robert M, Krapp Christopher J, Nadeau Joseph H, Willard Huntington F, Bartolomei Marisa S
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The mammalian epigenetic phenomena of X inactivation and genomic imprinting are incompletely understood. X inactivation equalizes X-linked expression between males and females by silencing genes on one X chromosome during female embryogenesis. Genomic imprinting functionally distinguishes the parental genomes, resulting in parent-specific monoallelic expression of particular genes. N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)...
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