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Nuclear transfer results in inherently unstable offspring

Adam Legge

  • Correspondence: Adam Legge

Genome Biology 2001, 2:spotlight-20010713-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20010713-01

Published: 13 July 2001

Mammalian development seems to be relatively tolerant to epigenetic aberrations of the genome, suggesting that cloning could result in viable offspring, despite widespread gene dysregulation.