2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Mechanism of heterochromat i n formation during early mouse development
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23770235
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cell biology
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Genetics |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRATANI Ichiro 国立遺伝学研究所, 構造遺伝学研究センター, 助教 (40583753)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 核構造 / クロマチン |
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| Research Abstract |
Earlier studies suggested that an extensive heterochromatin formation takes place throughout the genome in post-implantation mouse embryos (heterochromatin: condensed chromosome regions with transcriptionally inactive genes). To explore its significance, we set out to identify genes involved in this heterochromatinization process. A list of candidate genes was generated and we asked whether suppression of any of these candidate genes could disrupt heterochromatin formation. This led to the identification of four novel genes involved in this process.
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