Allelic Skewing of DNA Methylation Is Widespread across the Genome

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 196-212

  Schalkwyk, Leonard C ^a   Meaburn, Emma L ^a,b   Smith, Rebecca ^a   Dempster, Emma L ^a   Jeffries, Aaron R ^a   Davies, Matthew N ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a   Mill, Jonathan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA; METHYLATION SENSITIVE RESTRICTION ENZYME; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALLELES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 76049126281     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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