Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7271, 2009, Pages 315-322

  Lister, Ryan ^a   Pelizzola, Mattia ^a   Dowen, Robert H ^a   Hawkins, R David ^b   Hon, Gary ^b   Tonti Filippini, Julian ^d   Nery, Joseph R ^a   Lee, Leonard ^b   Ye, Zhen ^b   Ngo, Que Minh ^b   Edsall, Lee ^b   Antosiewicz Bourget, Jessica ^e,f   Stewart, Ron ^e,f   Ruotti, Victor ^e,f   Millar, A Harvey ^d   Thomson, James A ^e,f,g   Ren, Bing ^b,c   Ecker, Joseph R ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RETROVIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HUMANS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70450217879     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08514     Document Type: Article

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