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Lymphocytes from patients with type 1 diabetes display a distinct profile of chromatin histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation: an epigenetic study in diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Dec 2008
Miao Feng, Smith David D, Zhang Lingxiao, Min Andrew, Feng Wei, Natarajan Rama
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OBJECTIVE: The complexity of interactions between genes and the environment is a major challenge for type 1 diabetes studies. Nuclear chromatin is the interface between genetics and environment and the principal carrier of epigenetic information. Because histone tail modifications in chromatin are linked to gene transcription, we hypothesized that histone methylation patterns in cells from type 1 diabetic...
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