Increased expression and altered methylation of HERVWE1 in the human placentas of smaller fetuses from monozygotic, dichorionic, discordant twins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Yu ^a,b   He, Zhiming ^a,b   Wang, Zilian ^a   Luo, Yanmin ^a   Sun, Hongyu ^c   Zhou, Yi ^a   Huang, Linhuan ^a   Li, Manchao ^a   Fang, Qun ^a   Jiang, Shiwen ^b,d  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA ACTIN GENE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNMT3B7 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GAPDH GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HCS GENE; HERVWE1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PCNA GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWIN DISCORDANCE; ZYGOSITY; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84863368863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033503     Document Type: Article

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