Patterns of placental development evaluated by X chromosome inactivation profiling provide a basis to evaluate the origin of epigenetic variation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1745-1753

  Peaherrera, M S ^a,b   Jiang, R ^a,b   Avila, L ^a,b   Yuen, R K C ^a,b   Brown, C J ^a   Robinson, W P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Placenta; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

AMNION; APC GENE; ARTICLE; CASP8 GENE; CHORION; CHORION VILLUS; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INNER CELL MASS; KISS1 GENE; LINE1 GENE; MESENCHYME; METHYLATION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; PTPN6 GENE; TERM BIRTH; TROPHOBLAST; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84861554369     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des072     Document Type: Article

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