Recent advances in the epigenetics and genomics of asthma

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 414-419

  Koppelman, Gerard H ^a   Nawijn, Martijn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

epigenetics; expression quantitaive trait loci; histone modification; methylation; microRNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; MICRORNA; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ASTHMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 80052433999     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32834a9573     Document Type: Review

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