Next generation sequencing: Advances in characterizing the Methylome

Genes

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-165

  Taylor, Kristen H ^a   Shi, Huidong ^b   Caldwell, Charles W ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenome; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Methylation; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; MICRORNA; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

B CELL LYMPHOMA; BASE PAIRING; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRAND; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA CELL LINE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW;

EID: 79952088316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes1020143     Document Type: Review

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