A sustained dietary change increases epigenetic variation in isogenic mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Li, Cheryl C Y ^a   Cropley, Jennifer E ^a   Cowley, Mark J ^b   Preiss, Thomas ^a   Martin, David I K ^c   Suter, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; METHYL GROUP; CYTOSINE; HYDROGEN SULFITE; SULFITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ALLELE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICS;

MUS;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SULFITES;

EID: 79955627138     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001380     Document Type: Article

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