MethylKit: a comprehensive R package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Akalin, Altuna ^a   Kormaksson, Matthias ^a   Li, Sheng ^a   Garrett Bakelman, Francine E ^a   Figueroa, Maria E ^b   Melnick, Ari ^a   Mason, Christopher E ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BREAST CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; MCF 7 CELL LINE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866860221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-10-R87     Document Type: Article

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