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SUBMITTER: Kim K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3357310 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Kitai K Zhao Rui R Doi Akiko A Ng Kitwa K Unternaehrer Juli J Cahan Patrick P Huo Hongguang H Loh Yuin-Han YH Aryee Martin J MJ Lensch M William MW Li Hu H Collins James J JJ Feinberg Andrew P AP Daley George Q GQ
Nature biotechnology 20111127 12
We compared bona fide human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from umbilical cord blood (CB) cells and neonatal keratinocytes (K). As a consequence of both incomplete erasure of tissue-specific methylation and aberrant de novo methylation, CB-iPSCs and K-iPSCs were distinct in genome-wide DNA methylation profiles and differentiation potential. Extended passage of some iPSC clones in culture did not improve their epigenetic resemblance to embryonic stem cells, implying that some huma ...[more]