Taming the transposon: H3K9me3 turns foe to friend in human development.

Chitrakar, Alisha; Noon, Mackenzie; Xiao, Andrew Zhuo · Cell Stem Cell · 2022

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Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Xu et al. and Yu et al. use low-input epigenetic profiling techniques to map H3K9me3 deposition in early human development. They reveal stage-specific H3K9me3 deposition on retrotransposons, which may play crucial cis-regulatory roles in early development.

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