This Week in Nature: Nov 3, 2011

Nov 03, 2011

In a paper published online in advance in Nature this week, a team led by investigators at the National Cancer Institute shows that "CTCF-promoted RNA polymerase II pausing links DNA methylation to splicing," thus, it says, providing "a mechanistic basis for developmental regulation of splicing outcome through heritable epigenetic marks."

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