QDMR: A quantitative method for identification of differentially methylated regions by entropy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Liu, Hongbo ^a   Lv, Jie ^a   Xiao, Xue ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Liu, Xiaojuan ^a   Su, Jianzhong ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Wu, Qiong ^b   Wang, Fang ^a   Cui, Ying ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENTROPY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; ENTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79956006215     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr053     Document Type: Article

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