Individual variation and longitudinal pattern of genome-wide DNA methylation from birth to the first two years of life

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 594-605

  Wang, Deli ^a   Liu, Xin ^a,b   Zhou, Ying ^b   Xie, Hehuang ^a,b   Hong, Xiumei ^a,b   Tsai, Hui Ju ^a,b,c   Wang, Guoying ^b   Liu, Rong ^b   Wang, Xiaobin ^a,b,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CpG; DIP test; DNA methylation; Empirical bayes; Genome wide; Normal mixture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE;

EID: 84861926807     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.20117     Document Type: Article

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