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Germline- and soma-specific heritable epigenetic silencing at an endogenous locus

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ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans

PROVIDER: GSE81708 | GEO | 2017/02/16

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA322336

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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