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Alcohol Alters DNA Methylation Patterns and Inhibits Neural Stem Cell Differentiation
11 Jan 2011
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BACKGROUND: Potential epigenetic mechanisms underlying fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) include alcohol-induced alterations of methyl metabolism, resulting in aberrant patterns of DNA methylation and gene expression during development. Having previously demonstrated an essential role for epigenetics in neural stem cell (NSC) development and that inhibiting DNA methylation prevents NSC differentiation, here we...
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