Epigenetic mechanisms and genome stability

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-314

  Putiri, Emily L ^a   Robertson, Keith D ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere; DNA methylation; DNA repair; Histone modifications; Microsatellite instability (MSI)

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 GENE; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MMR GENE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84856253068     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13148-010-0017-z     Document Type: Review

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