Ultra-Deep Bisulfite Sequencing to Detect Specific DNA Methylation Patterns of Minor Cell Types in Heterogeneous Cell Populations: An Example of the Pituitary Tissue

• Yoshikazu Arai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshikazu Arai, Hisho Fukukawa

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic function Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Hisho Fukukawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshikazu Arai, Hisho Fukukawa

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic function Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Takanori Atozi,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic function Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Shoma Matsumoto,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic function Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Yutaka Hanazono,

  Affiliations Division of Regenerative Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Nagashima,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Developmental Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, Meiji University International Institute for Bio-Resource Research (MUIIBR), Kawasaki, Japan

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• Jun Ohgane

  * E-mail: johgane@meiji.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic function Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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