Post genomic decade - The epigenome and exposome challenges

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Paoloni Giacobino, Ariane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environment; Epigenome; Exposome; Genome; Methylation; Sequence variants

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MICRORNA; RNA;

ACETYLATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENOME; EXPOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME MAP; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN GENOME; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 84855258483     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13321     Document Type: Review

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