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The Exception That Proves the Rule: An Interview with Jenny Graves

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"Jenny has had a long and joyful career, overcoming a near fatal illness and a coincident collapse in funding to resurrect her research, and eventually being awarded the L'Oreal Prize for women in science." Read more in Jane Gitschier's Interview with Jenny Graves.

 

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Sepsid even-skipped Enhancers Are Functionally Conserved in Drosophila Despite Lack of Sequence Conservation

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These observations suggest that the local arrangement of binding sites relative to each other is more important than their overall arrangement into larger units of cis-regulatory function.

 

Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies

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The authors provide evidence that sample size has a greater impact on the power of whole-genome association studies than SNP density or genetic coverage.

 

Global Mapping of DNA Methylation in Mouse Promoters Reveals Epigenetic Reprogramming of Pluripotency Genes

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This work shows that epigenetic reprogramming is crucial for maintaining the pluripotency of germ and embryonic stem cells.

 

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