Correction: Reduced syncytin-1 expression levels in placental syndromes correlates with epigenetic hypermethylation of the ERVW-1 promoter region (PLoS ONE (2013) 8, 2 (e56145) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056145);Reduced Syncytin-1 Expression Levels in Placental Syndromes Correlates with Epigenetic Hypermethylation of the ERVW-1 Promoter Region

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ruebner, Matthias ^a   Strissel, Pamela L ^a   Ekici, Arif B ^a   Stiegler, Elisabeth ^a   Dammer, Ulf ^a   Goecke, Tamme W ^a   Faschingbauer, Florian ^a   Fahlbusch, Fabian B ^a   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a   Strick, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DEACETYLATION; DEMETHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; ERVW 1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MORPHOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTAL SYNDROME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PYROSEQUENCING; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 84874013797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107215     Document Type: Erratum

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