Phylogenetic and DNA methylation analysis reveal novel regions of variable methylation in the mouse IAP class of transposons

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Faulk, Christopher ^a   Barks, Amanda ^a   Dolinoy, Dana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Metastable epiallele; Mouse; Phylogeny; Transposon

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLE; GENETIC LOCI; MALE; MICE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84872588365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-48     Document Type: Article

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