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Dr. Liu examines how retrotransposons are silenced in germ cells. He developed a high-throughput method to map chemical modifications on histones in germ cells; with this method, he found loss of a special histone modification leads to retrotransposon reactivation and germ cell death, demonstrating its vital importance in mammalian development.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD) - graduated in 2016

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