Identification of genetic and epigenetic marks involved in population structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Jingyu ^a,b   Hutchison, Kent ^a,c   Perrone Bizzozero, Nora ^d   Morgan, Marilee ^a   Sui, Jing ^a   Calhoun, Vince ^a,b,d  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTNNA2 GENE; CYTOSKELETON; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERC2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; ID2 GENE; MALE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC45A2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 78049243989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013209     Document Type: Article

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