Table 1. Summary of the rules governing interactions between genetic and epigenetic networks during the two phases labeled interphase and telophase (details in text).

During Interphase:	During Telophase: proteins expressed by a gene module…
(1′) if a gene module is positively marked, its expression is favored. Expression of bivalently marked gene modules is not favored, but it is not as strongly suppressed as modules that are negatively marked or DNA methylated	(1) … favor putting positive marks on the module that expresses them, which enables stable maintenance of cellular identity (2) … favor putting negative histone marks on the modules regulating the immediate progenitor or an immediate “sibling” in the hierarchy
(2′) Diverse experimental data [38], [39] show that, due to effects such as feedback regulation, etc., expression of genes from competing lineages is mutually repressed.	(3) … favor putting bivalent histone marks on modules regulating immediate progeny (4) … favor methylation of all modules that regulate cell states in competing lineages or less differentiated states in the same lineage