Genetic analysis of DNA methylation and gene expression levels in whole blood of healthy human subjects

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  van Eijk, Kristel R ^a,b   de Jong, Simone ^d   Boks, Marco P M ^b   Langeveld, Terry ^a   Colas, Fabrice ^c   Veldink, Jan H ^b   de Kovel, Carolien G F ^a   Janson, Esther ^a   Strengman, Eric ^a,d   Langfelder, Peter ^e   Kahn, René S ^b   van den Berg, Leonard H ^b   Horvath, Steve ^e,f   Ophoff, Roel A ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Gene expression; WGCNA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

BLOOD CELLS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84869044837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-636     Document Type: Article

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