Of giraffes' necks and the inheritance of chromatin states

Vincenzo Pirrotta

doi:10.1038/ng.3881

Of giraffes' necks and the inheritance of chromatin states

Vincenzo Pirrotta

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New work reports that both derepressed and hyper-repressed chromatin states in animals can be transmitted to progeny for many generations. Transmission depends on genomic architecture and histone modifications.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	821-823
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature genetics
Volume	49
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3881
State	Published - Jun 1 2017

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Of giraffes' necks and the inheritance of chromatin states

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