Polycomb repression under the skin.

Pirrotta, Vincenzo · Cell · 2009

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Polycomb group proteins control a hierarchy of gene expression during the differentiation of stem cells. In this issue, Ezhkova et al. (2009) show that repression mediated by Polycomb proteins controls the timing of differentiation of precursor cells of the epidermal lineage.

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