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Miles Wilkinson
Title(s)
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
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Pathways and Processes
Transcription, epigenetics (DNA methylation and histone modifications), RNA splicing, RNA stability, NMD RNA surveillance pathway
Approaches
KO and KD mice, genome-wide gene expression, reproductive organs, stem cells, neural progenitors
Diseases
X-linked mental retardation, diseases caused by nonsense and frameshift mutations
Transcriptional regulatory pathways in stem cell and germ cell development; Biological functions of nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD), a conserved and selective RNA turnover pathway that functions in early embryonic development, neural development, and neural functions.