Temporal stability of epigenetic markers: Sequence characteristics and predictors of short-term DNA methylation variations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Byun, Hyang Min ^a   Nordio, Francesco ^a,b   Coull, Brent A ^a   Tarantini, Letizia ^b   Hou, Lifang ^c   Bonzini, Matteo ^d   Apostoli, Pietro ^e   Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^b   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANINE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDH13; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P53; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APC GENE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CDH13 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA CONTENT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENOS GENE; EPIGENETICS; ET 1 GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HTERT GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IFNGAMMA GENE; IL 6 GENE; INOS GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; P16 GENE; P53 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING; RASSF1A GENE; TNFALPHA GENE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; BASE COMPOSITION; CADHERINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84862667064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039220     Document Type: Article

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