Genome-wide promoter methylation profile of human testis and epididymis: Identified from cell-free seminal DNA

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Chunlin ^a   Ding, Xiaofang ^a   Li, Honggang ^a,b   Zhu, Changhong ^a,b   Xiong, Chengliang ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan Tongji Reproductive Medicine Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Cell free seminal DNA; DNA methylation; Epididymis; Noninvasive diagnosis; Testis; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL FREE SEMINAL DNA; DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIGENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS; VASECTOMY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEMEN; SPERM MATURATION; TESTIS; VASECTOMY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876681920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-288     Document Type: Article

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