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Inherited GPI deficiency: a disorder of histone hypoacetylation.
Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews - 1 Dec 2009
Georgiou Elisabeth, Layton Mark, Karadimitris Anastasios
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Co-operative interaction of transcription factors (TF) with epigenetic processes, such as chromatin remodeling and modification (acetylation or methylation), as well as DNA methylation, determine transcriptional activity, activation or repression of a given gene. Mutations disrupting binding of TF to their cognate DNA motifs would be expected to alter the epigenetic landscape of the promoter and selectively...
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