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Maternal and paternal alleles exhibit differential histone methylation and acetylation at maize imprinted genes.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Dec 2008
Haun William J, Springer Nathan M
Abstract excerpt
Imprinting is an epigenetically controlled form of gene regulation in which the expression of a gene is based on its parent of origin. This epigenetic regulation is likely to involve allele-specific DNA or histone modifications. The relative abundance of eight different histone modifications was tested at various regions in several imprinted maize (Zea mays) genes using a chromatin immunoprecipitation protocol...
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