Quantitative, high-resolution epigenetic profling of CpG loci identifies associations with cord blood plasma homocysteine and birth weight in humans

Epigenetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-94

  Fryer, Anthony A ^a   Emes, Richard D ^b   Ismail, Khaled M K ^a,c   Haworth, Kim E ^a   Mein, Charles ^e   Carroll, William D ^d   Farrell, William E ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d DERBYSHIRE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beadarray; Birth weight; Folic acid; Hierarchical clustering; Homocysteine; Illumina; These authors contributed equally to this work. key words: cord blood

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; HIGH RESOLUTION EPIGENETIC PROFILING; HUMAN; LINE 1; METHYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 78651242327     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.6.1.13392     Document Type: Article

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