Cytosine Methylation and the Unequal Developmental Potentials of the Oocyte and Sperm Genomes

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Journal Am J Hum Genet

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 1998 Jun 19

PMID 9585619

Citations 15

Authors

T H Bestor

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