Role of Retrotransposons as a Major Source of Intra- and Inter-Individual Epigenetic Variations in the Mammalian Genome
Transcription of retrotransposons is usually repressed by DNA methylation, but a few elements partially escape this repression mechanism. I used two approaches as my dissertation study to identify unmethylated intracisternal A-particles (IAPs) and also to understand why some of IAPs escape DNA methy...
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LSU
2013
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04022013-204739/ |