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Nature Genetics 40, 934 - 935 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0808-934
One PRDM is not enough for germ cell development
Elizabeth K Bikoff1 & Elizabeth J Robertson1
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Elizabeth K. Bikoff and Elizabeth J. Robertson are at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.
e-mail: elizabeth.robertson@path.ox.ac.uk
Abstract
Developmentally regulated expression of the transcriptional repressor Prdm1 (Blimp1) in the early mammalian embryo controls global epigenetic changes required for specification of primordial germ cells. A new study demonstrates that a close family member, Prdm14, similarly activated in response to Bmp and Smad signals, also has an essential role during establishment of the germ cell lineage.
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