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Embryo manipulation via assisted reproductive technology and epigenetic asymmetry in mammalian early development.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 5 Jan 2013
Kohda Takashi, Ishino Fumitoshi
Abstract excerpt
The early stage of mammalian development from fertilization to implantation is a period when global and differential changes in the epigenetic landscape occur in paternally and maternally derived genomes, respectively. The sperm and egg DNA methylation profiles are very different from each other, and just after fertilization, only the paternally derived genome is subjected to genome-wide hydroxylation of...
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