MLL2 Is Required in Oocytes for Bulk Histone 3 Lysine 4 Trimethylation and Transcriptional Silencing

Conditional knockout mouse strategies identify the histone methyltranferase MLL2 as a key player in epigenetic reprogramming of female gametes.

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