Genome-wide survey reveals dynamic widespread tissue-specific changes in DNA methylation during development

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liang, Ping ^a   Song, Fei ^b   Ghosh, Srimoyee ^b,c   Morien, Evan ^b,d   Qin, Maochun ^b   Mahmood, Saleh ^b,e   Fujiwara, Kyoko ^b,f   Igarashi, Jun ^f   Nagase, Hiroki ^b,f,g   Held, William A ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; CADHERIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CADHERINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TESTIS;

EID: 79955777417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-231     Document Type: Article

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