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Abstract
Two recent reports, including one by Reinders and colleagues (pp. 939-950) in the April 15, 2009, issue of Genes & Development, describe the construction of Arabidopsis recombinant inbred populations that maximize epigenetic rather than genetic variation. The distribution and behavior of phenotypic variation in these populations suggest that stable epialleles can control complex quantitative traits. However, stochastic epimutation and transposon movement in these populations present some unexpected technical hurdles to implementing quantitative epigenetic analysis.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19605680 PMCID: PMC3959989 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1824909
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genes Dev ISSN: 0890-9369 Impact factor: 11.361