Histone lysine methylation: a signature for chromatin function.

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Published in Trends Genet on November 01, 2003

Authors

Robert J Sims1, Kenichi Nishioka, Danny Reinberg

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Nucleic Acids Enzymology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

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