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Transitions in distinct histone H3 methylation patterns at the heterochromatin domain boundaries

Noma K1, C D Allis, S I Grewal

  • 1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Post Office Box 100, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 11, 2001
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