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Histone Modifications in Mammalian Early Embryos.

2026 · Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology · Vol 1517, pp. 167-176 · 0 citations
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How histone modifications contribute to transcriptional competence, repression, and lineage priming, how these processes vary across species, and how they together constitute an epigenomic "rebooting" that balances the erasure of parental memory with the preservation of essential regulatory information are discussed.

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