Recent publications suggest that certain proteins of the Polycomb group interact with DNA methyltransferases. This may connect the two systems that are known to mediate somatic inheritance of states of gene expression during development.
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Damelin, M., Ooi, S. & Bestor, T. Combing over heritable gene silencing. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 100–101 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0206-100
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