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piRNA pathway targets active LINE1 elements to establish the repressive H3K9me3 mark in germ cells.
Genes & development - 1 Jul 2014
Pezic Dubravka, Manakov Sergei A, Sachidanandam Ravi, Aravin Alexei A
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) occupy a large fraction of metazoan genomes and pose a constant threat to genomic integrity. This threat is particularly critical in germ cells, as changes in the genome that are induced by TEs will be transmitted to the next generation. Small noncoding piwi-interactin...
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