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Chromatin Organization in Sperm May Be the Major Functional Consequence of Base Composition Variation in the Human Genome

Chromatin in sperm is different from that in other cells, with most of the genome packaged by protamines not nucleosomes. Nucleosomes are, however, retained at some genomic sites, where they have the potential to transmit paternal epigenetic information. It is not understood how this retention is sp...

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Autores principales: Vavouri, Tanya, Lehner, Ben
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002036