Article
Stable Heritable Germline Silencing Directs Somatic Silencing at an Endogenous Locus.
Molecular cell - 16 Feb 2017
Minkina Olga, Hunter Craig P
Abstract excerpt
The importance of transgenerationally inherited epigenetic states to organismal fitness remains unknown as well-documented examples are often not amenable to mechanistic analysis or rely on artificial reporter loci. Here we describe an induced silenced state at an endogenous locus that persists, at 100% transmission without selection, for up to 13 generations. This unusually persistent silencing enables a...
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