Open chromatin and hypertranscription in embryonic stem cells.

Turner, Bryan M · Cell Stem Cell · 2008

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Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Efroni et al. (2008) use tiling microarrays to reveal genome-wide hypertranscription in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs), including expression of normally silent, noncoding regions. Hypertranscription may reflect the unusual "open" structure of ESC chromatin.

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