Retrotransposons as a major source of epigenetic variations in the mammalian genome

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 370-382

  Ekram, Muhammad B ^a   Kang, Keunsoo ^a,b   Kim, Hana ^a   Kim, Joomyeong ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active histone modification; DNA methylation; Epiallele; Epigenetics; Inter individual variation; Metastable epiallele; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGOUTI; INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84860589346     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.19462     Document Type: Article

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