Sperm methylation profiles reveal features of epigenetic inheritance and evolution in primates.

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Published in Cell on September 16, 2011

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Antoine Molaro1, Emily Hodges, Fang Fang, Qiang Song, W Richard McCombie, Gregory J Hannon, Andrew D Smith

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.

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