Genome-Wide DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Analyses of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Intelligence Levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Chih Chieh ^a   Furukawa, Mari ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Shikishima, Chizuru ^b   Cha, Pei Chieng ^a   Sese, Jun ^c   Sugawara, Hiroko ^d   Iwamoto, Kazuya ^e   Kato, Tadafumi ^d   Ando, Juko ^b   Toda, Tatsushi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARHGAP18 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION RELATED GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME RELATED GENE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867652223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047081     Document Type: Article

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