DNA methylation and transcriptional noise

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huh, Iksoo ^a   Zeng, Jia ^b   Park, Taesung ^a   Yi, Soojin V ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Gene expression; Spurious transcription; Transcriptional noise

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTIONAL NOISE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876683784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-6-9     Document Type: Article

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