Epigenomics and the regulation of aging

Epigenomics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 205-227

  Boyd Kirkup, Jerome D ^a   Green, Christopher D ^a   Wu, Gang ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Han, Jing Dong J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

aging; DNA methylation; histone modification; longevity; noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 34A; MICRORNA 375; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGING; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGING; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84876119664     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.13.5     Document Type: Review

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