Epigenetics: filling in the 'heritability gap' and identifying gene-environment interactions in ulcerative colitis

Genome Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Quigley, Eamonn M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I KAPPA B; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

APPENDECTOMY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE INFECTION; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SMOKING; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 84866546868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm373     Document Type: Note

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