DNA methylation and its basic function

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-38

  Moore, Lisa D ^a   Le, Thuc ^a   Fan, Guoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

demethylation; epigenetics; gene regulation; neuron; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HISTONE; MICRORNA; SPACER DNA;

BRAIN; COGNITION; CPG ISLAND; DEMENTIA; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84869096444     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.112     Document Type: Review

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