Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4743-4754

  Reiss, Daphne ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Mager, Dixie L ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

DNA METHYLATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547904256     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm455     Document Type: Article

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