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Compromised stability of DNA methylation and transposon immobilization in mosaic Arabidopsis epigenomes.
Genes & development - 15 Apr 2009
Reinders Jon, Wulff Brande B H, Mirouze Marie, Marí-Ordóñez Arturo, Dapp Mélanie, Rozhon Wilfried, Bucher Etienne, Theiler Grégory, Paszkowski Jerzy
Abstract excerpt
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has been defined by the study of relatively few loci. We examined a population of recombinant inbred lines with epigenetically mosaic chromosomes consisting of wild-type and CG methylation-depleted segments (epiRILs). Surprisingly, transposons that were immobile in the parental lines displayed stochastic movement in 28% of the epiRILs. Although analysis after eight...
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