Buccals are likely to be a more informative surrogate tissue than blood for epigenome-wide association studies

Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 445-454

  Lowe, Robert ^a   Gemma, Carolina ^a   Beyan, Huriya ^a   Hawa, Mohammed I ^a   Bazeos, Alexandra ^a,b   David Leslie, R ^a   Montpetit, Alexandre ^c   Rakyan, Vardhman K ^a   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BS seq; Buccal; Complex disease; Epigenome wide association study; Human

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CHEEK; DNA LIBRARY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MOUTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875850911     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.24362     Document Type: Article

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