Distribution of a marker of germline methylation differs between major families of transposon-derived repeats in the human genome

Gene

Volumn 492, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-109

  Sigurdsson, Martin I ^a,b   Smith, Albert V ^c   Bjornsson, Hans T ^d,e   Jonsson, Jon J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Harriet Lane Pediatric Residency Program ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alu; Germline; HapMap; L1; Methylation; Repeats

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MARKER GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

ALU ELEMENTS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84155180746     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.10.046     Document Type: Article

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