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The imprinted polycomb group gene Sfmbt2 is required for trophoblast maintenance and placenta development.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Nov 2013
Miri Kamelia, Latham Keith, Panning Barbara, Zhong Zhisheng, Andersen Angela, Varmuza Susannah
Abstract excerpt
Imprinted genes play important roles in placenta development and function. Parthenogenetic embryos, deficient in paternally expressed imprinted genes, lack extra-embryonic tissues of the trophoblast lineage. Parthenogenetic trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) are extremely difficult to derive, suggesting that an imprinted gene(s) is necessary for TSC establishment or maintenance. In a candidate study, we were able to...
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