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Determination of DNA methylation of imprinted genes in Arabidopsis endosperm.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE - 28 Jan 2011
Rea Matthew, Chen Ming, Luan Shan, Bhangu Drutdaman, Braud Max, Xiao Wenyan
Abstract excerpt
Arabidopsis thaliana is an excellent model organism for studying epigenetic mechanisms. One of the reasons is the loss-of-function null mutant of DNA methyltransferases is viable, thus providing a system to study how loss of DNA methylation in a genome affects growth and development. Imprinting refers to differential expression of maternal and paternal alleles and plays an important role in reproduction...
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