Large-scale methylation analysis of human genomic DNA reveals tissue-specific differences between the methylation profiles of genes and pseudogenes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2651-2663

  Grunau, Christoph ^a,c   Hindermann, Winfried ^b   Rosenthall, André ^a,b,d  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^d MetaGen Gesell Genomforschung mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CREATINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOGENE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0034326284     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.18.2651     Document Type: Article

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