Chromosome-wide and promoter-specific analyses identify sites of differential DNA methylation in normal and transformed human cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 853-862

  Weber, Michael ^a   Davies, Jonathan J ^b   Wittig, David ^a   Oakeley, Edward J ^a   Haase, Michael ^c   Lam, Wan L ^b   Schübeler, Dirk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 23044514626     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1598     Document Type: Article

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