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SUBMITTER: Langouet M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Langouët Maéva M Gorka Dea D Orniacki Clarisse C Dupont-Thibert Clémence M CM Chung Michael S MS Glatt-Deeley Heather R HR Germain Noelle N Crandall Leann J LJ Cotney Justin L JL Stoddard Christopher E CE Lalande Marc M Chamberlain Stormy J SJ
Human molecular genetics 20201101 19
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is characterized by neonatal hypotonia, developmental delay and hyperphagia/obesity. This disorder is caused by the absence of paternally expressed gene products from chromosome 15q11-q13. We previously demonstrated that knocking out ZNF274, a Kruppel-associated box-A-domain zinc finger protein capable of recruiting epigenetic machinery to deposit the H3K9me3 repressive histone modification, can activate expression from the normally silent maternal allele of SNORD116 ...[more]