Intronic Parent-of-Origin Dependent Differential Methylation at the Actn1 Gene Is Conserved in Rodents but Is Not Associated with Imprinted Expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Calaway, John D ^a   Domínguez, José Ignacio ^b   Hanson, Megan E ^c   Cambranis, Ezequiel C ^c   Pardo Manuel de Villena, Fernando ^a   de la Casa Esperon, Elena ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d Albacete Science and Technology Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ 1; GENOMIC DNA;

ALPHA 1 ACTININ GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARENT OF ORIGIN DIFFERENTIAL DNA METHYLATION; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACTININ; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

MURINAE; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84869078126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048936     Document Type: Article

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