Neonatal DNA methylation profile in human twins is specified by a complex interplay between intrauterine environmental and genetic factors, subject to tissue-specific influence

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1395-1406

  Gordon, Lavinia ^a   Joo, Jihoon E ^b,c   Powell, Joseph E ^d,e   Ollikainen, Miina ^f   Novakovic, Boris ^b,c   Li, Xin ^b   Andronikos, Roberta ^b,c   Cruickshank, Mark N ^b   Conneely, Karen N ^g   Smith, Alicia K ^g   Alisch, Reid S ^h   Morley, Ruth ^b   Visscher, Peter M ^d,e   Craig, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Saffery, Richard ^b,c  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MCRI   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CPG ISLAND; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN DISCORDANCE; UTERUS;

CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME, HUMAN; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84864610761     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.136598.111     Document Type: Article

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