Ezh2 orchestrates gene expression for the stepwise differentiation of tissue-specific stem cells.

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Published in Cell on March 20, 2009

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Elena Ezhkova1, H Amalia Pasolli, Joel S Parker, Nicole Stokes, I-hsin Su, Gregory Hannon, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Elaine Fuchs

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.

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