High-throughput analysis of candidate imprinted genes and allele-specific gene expression in the human term placenta

BMC Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Daelemans, Caroline ^a,b,c   Ritchie, Matthew E ^d,e   Smits, Guillaume ^a   Abu Amero, Sayeda ^b   Sudbery, Ian M ^a   Forrest, Matthew S ^a   Campino, Susana ^a   Clark, Taane G ^a   Stanier, Philip ^b   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^a   Deloukas, Panos ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,f   Tavaré, Simon ^d   Moore, Gudrun E ^b   Dunham, Ian ^a,g  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^g EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN PHACTR2; PROTEIN PLAGL1; PROTEIN ZNF331; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PHACTR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR PROTEIN; ZNF331 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FAMILY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PLACENTA; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; BIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

ALLELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLACENTA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950930978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-25     Document Type: Article

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