Focus on Molecules: 5-Methylcytosine, a possible epigenetic link between ageing and ocular disease

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-3

  Mitton, Kenneth P ^a   Guzman, Alvaro E ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 methylcytosine; Disease; DNA methylation; Epigenitic; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; METHYLTRANSFERASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AGING; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EYE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; UVEA MELANOMA; X CHROMOSOME;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; AGING; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EYE DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS;

EID: 84857795963     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.06.026     Document Type: Short Survey

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