Placing the Plasmodium falciparum epigenome on the map

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 486-495

  Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A M ^a   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^a   Bártfai, Richárd ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenome; Histone modification; Histone variant; Malaria; Nucleosome; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW;

EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84867847428     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2012.08.006     Document Type: Review

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