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Lineage-specific retrotransposon co-option reveals a conserved ASH2L isoform as an epigenetic primer of developmental gene promoters
Eleanor Elgood Hunt, Claudia Vivori, Richard Mitter…·Folkert Jacobus van Werven
The paper shows that a truncated ASH2L isoform, generated via a lineage-specific retrotransposon, primes developmental gene promoters during pluripotency and is required for later developmental transitions.