DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bell, Jordana T ^a,b   Pai, Athma A ^a   Pickrell, Joseph K ^a   Gaffney, Daniel J ^a   Pique Regi, Roger ^a   Degner, Jacob F ^a   Gilad, Yoav ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CPG DINUCLEOTIDE; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCO INTERACTING PROTEIN 2 HOMOLOG B GENE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CELL LINE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPMAP PROJECT; HISTONES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78651552406     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-1-r10     Document Type: Article

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