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Abstract
"Epigenetics" is currently defined as "the inheritance of variation (-genetics) above and beyond (epi-) changes in the DNA sequence". Despite the fact that histones are believed to carry important epigenetic information, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of the inheritance of histone-based epigenetic information, including histone modifications and histone variants. Here we review recent progress and discuss potential models for the mitotic inheritance of histone modifications-based epigenetic information.Mesh:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21321606 PMCID: PMC3193423 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2011.26
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617