Genomic surveys by methylation-sensitive SNP analysis identify sequence-dependent allele-specific DNA methylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 904-908

  Kerkel, Kristi ^a   Spadola, Alexandra ^a   Yuan, Eric ^a   Kosek, Jolanta ^a   Jiang, Le ^a   Hod, Eldad ^a   Li, Kerry ^a   Murty, Vundavalli V ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^b   Vilain, Eric ^c,d   Morris, Mitzi ^a   Haghighi, Fatemeh ^a   Tycko, Benjamin ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 2A6; CYTOCHROME P450 2A7; GENOMIC DNA; HPAII ENZYME; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 46249117780     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.174     Document Type: Article

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