Correlation of global and gene-specific DNA methylation in maternal-infant pairs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kile, Molly L ^a   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a,b   Tarantini, Letizia ^b   Hoffman, Elaine ^a   Wright, Robert O ^a   Christiani, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P53; PRIMER DNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INHERITANCE; MATERNAL BLOOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY;

BANGLADESH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78149423910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013730     Document Type: Article

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