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. 2012 Nov 13;23(5):918-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.10.022.

Silencing by throwing away: a role for chromatin diminution

Adrian Streit  1
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Silencing by throwing away: a role for chromatin diminution

Adrian Streit. Dev Cell. .
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  • Dev Cell. 2012 Dec 11;23(6):1263

Abstract

Chromatin diminution during development generates cells with varying genetic content within the same organism. Two recent papers demonstrate that in two different systems chromatin diminution removes a considerable number of genes from somatic cells, thereby restricting their expression to the germline.

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