Methylation analysis of circadian clock gene promoters in forensic autopsy specimens

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 205-209

  Nakatome, Masato ^a   Orii, Minami ^a   Hamajima, Makoto ^a   Hirata, Yukari ^a   Uemura, Misato ^a   Hirayama, Sayaka ^a   Isobe, Ichiro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian clock genes; DNA methylation; Forensic autopsy specimens; Methamphetamine; Methylation specific PCR

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE IEPSILON; CRYPTOCHROME 1; CRYPTOCHROME 2; GENOMIC DNA; METHAMPHETAMINE; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BMAL1; PROTEIN PER 3; PROTEIN TIMELESS; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BMAL 1 GENE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CK 1E GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; CRY 1 GENE; CRY 2 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EXPOSURE; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PER 1 GENE; PER 2 GENE; PER 3 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; TIM GENE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; METHAMPHETAMINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957554998     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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