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Transcription profiling of mouse embryonic stem cell-derived astrocytes

ABSTRACT: Expression profiles for Gfap-positive astrocytes obtained by in vitro differentiation of 129SvJae x C57BL/6 murine embryonic stem (ES) cells. Generated to examine the relationship between expression levels and DNA methylation patterns. Experiment Overall Design: 3 replicates of ES-derived astrocytes.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Tarjei Mikkelsen

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11483 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Genome-scale DNA methylation maps of pluripotent and differentiated cells.

Meissner Alexander A Mikkelsen Tarjei S TS Gu Hongcang H Wernig Marius M Hanna Jacob J Sivachenko Andrey A Zhang Xiaolan X Bernstein Bradley E BE Nusbaum Chad C Jaffe David B DB Gnirke Andreas A Jaenisch Rudolf R Lander Eric S ES

Nature 20080706 7205

DNA methylation is essential for normal development and has been implicated in many pathologies including cancer. Our knowledge about the genome-wide distribution of DNA methylation, how it changes during cellular differentiation and how it relates to histone methylation and other chromatin modifications in mammals remains limited. Here we report the generation and analysis of genome-scale DNA methylation profiles at nucleotide resolution in mammalian cells. Using high-throughput reduced represe ...[more]

PMID: 18600261

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Transcription profiling of mouse embryonic stem cell-derived astrocytes

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Genome-scale DNA methylation maps of pluripotent and differentiated cells.

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