Genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation reveals a class of normally methylated CpG island promoters

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2023-2026

  Shen, Lanlan ^a   Kondo, Yutaka ^b   Guo, Yi ^a   Zhang, Jiexin ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Ahmed, Saira ^a   Shu, Jingmin ^a   Chen, Xinli ^a   Waterland, Robert A ^c   Issa, Jean Pierre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CHILDREN S NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; BISULFITE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CELL LINE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERM; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 35948981875     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030181     Document Type: Article

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