Age-Associated Hyper-Methylated Regions in the Human Brain Overlap with Bivalent Chromatin Domains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Watson, Corey T ^a   Disanto, Giulio ^b,c   Sandve, Geir Kjetil ^d   Breden, Felix ^a   Giovannoni, Gavin ^e   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^c,e  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CHILD; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETUS; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866654623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043840     Document Type: Article

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