Methylation of L1Hs promoters is lower on the inactive X, has a tendency of being higher on autosomes in smaller genomes and shows inter-individual variability at some loci

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 219-235

  Singer, Heike ^a   Walier, Maja ^a   Nüsgen, Nicole ^a   Meesters, Christian ^a,d   Schreiner, Felix ^a   Woelfle, Joachim ^a   Fimmers, Rolf ^a   Wienker, Thomas ^a   Kalscheuer, Vera M ^b   Becker, Tim ^a,c   Schwaab, Rainer ^a   Oldenburg, Johannes ^a   El Maarri, Osman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d AESKU KIPP Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOME SIZE; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455213460     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr456     Document Type: Article

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