Postnatal development- and age-related changes in DNA-methylation patterns in the human genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6477-6494

  Salpea, Paraskevi ^a   Russanova, Valya R ^a   Hirai, Tazuko H ^a   Sourlingas, Thomae G ^b   Sekeri Pataryas, Kalliope E ^b   Romero, Roberto ^c   Epstein, Jonathan ^a   Howard, Bruce H ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Perinatology Research Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALPP GENE; ALPPL2 GENE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DENDRITIC CELL; DNA METHYLATION; ECEL1 GENE; ECEL1P2 GENE; EPIGENETICS; FAM90A GENE; FEMALE; FGF17 GENE; FZD1 GENE; FZD7 GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HRNR GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOCYTE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PCDHG GENE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGING; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84864946547     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks312     Document Type: Article

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