Phenotypic diversity and epigenomic variation - The utility of mass spectrometric analysis of DNA methylation

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3400-3409

  McLean, Cameron ^a,b   Gluckman, Peter ^b,c   Sheppard, Allan ^a,b  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Phenotypic variation; Programming

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84862216803     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: 18767737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.01.036     Document Type: Review

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