Non-imprinted allele-specific DNA methylation on human autosomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Yingying ^a   Rohde, Christian ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Voelcker Rehage, Claudia ^a   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CBR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HSF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; LEUKOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 76249089640     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r138     Document Type: Article

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