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Epigenetics in formation, function, and failure of the endocrine pancreas.
Molecular metabolism - 1 Sept 2017
Golson Maria L, Kaestner Klaus H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epigenetics, in the broadest sense, governs all aspects of the life of any multicellular organism, as it controls how differentiated cells arrive at their unique phenotype during development and differentiation, despite having a uniform (with some exceptions such as T-cells and germ cells) genetic make-up. The endocrine pancreas is no exception. Transcriptional regulators and epigenetic modifiers...
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