Highly individual methylation patterns of alternative glucocorticoid receptor promoters suggest individualized epigenetic regulatory mechanisms

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7207-7218

  Turner, Jonathan D ^a,b   Pelascini, Laetitia P L ^a   MacEdo, Joana A ^a,b   Muller, Claude P ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATTLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 58749114575     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn897     Document Type: Article

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