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Blimp1 regulates development of the posterior forelimb, caudal pharyngeal arches, heart and sensory vibrissae in mice.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Dec 2007
Robertson Elizabeth J, Charatsi Iphigenie, Joyner Clive J, Koonce Chad H, Morgan Marc, Islam Ayesha, Paterson Carol, Lejsek Emily, Arnold Sebastian J, Kallies Axel, Nutt Stephen L, Bikoff Elizabeth K
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The zinc-finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1 (Prdm1) controls gene expression patterns during differentiation of B lymphocytes and regulates epigenetic changes required for specification of primordial germ cells. Blimp1 is dynamically expressed at diverse tissue sites in the developing mouse embryo, but its functional role remains unknown because Blimp1 mutant embryos arrest at E10.5 due to placental...
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