Impact of the genome on the epigenome is manifested in DNA methylation patterns of imprinted regions in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Coolen, Marcel W ^a,b   Statham, Aaron L ^a   Qu, Wenjia ^a   Campbell, Megan J ^c   Henders, Anjali K ^c   Montgomery, Grant W ^c   Martin, Nick G ^c   Clark, Susan J ^a,d  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; SOMATOMEDIN B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROMOTER REGION; SCHOOL CHILD; TWIN DISCORDANCE; ADULT; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053449066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025590     Document Type: Article

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