Creation of genomic methylation patterns

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-367

  Bestor, Timothy H ^a   Tycko, Benjamin ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030115772     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0496-363     Document Type: Review

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