Imprinted segments in the human genome: Different DNA methylation patterns in the Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region as determined by the genomic sequencing method

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 387-395

  Zeschnigk, Michael ^a   Schmitz, Birgit ^a   Dittrich, Bärbel ^b   Buiting, Karin ^b   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^b   Doerfler, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FATHER; GENE; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; MOTHER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANGELMAN SYNDROME; AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SULFITES;

EID: 0031051145     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.3.387     Document Type: Article

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