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/2001/2/4/reviews/0003.1 Review A tale of histone modifications Patrick A Grant Address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. E-mail: pag9n@ Published: 5 April 2001 GenomeBiology 2001, 2(4):reviews0003.1–0003.6 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2001/2/4/reviews/0003 ? BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1465-6906; Online ISSN 1465-6914) Abstract The modification of chromatin structure is important for a number of nuclear functions,