Inactive or moderately active human promoters are enriched for inter-individual epialleles

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gemma, Carolina ^a   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   Down, Thomas A ^c   Beyan, Huriya ^a   Hawa, Mohammed I ^a   Holland, Michelle L ^a   Hurd, Paul J ^d   Giovannoni, Gavin ^a   Leslie, R David ^a   Ebers, George C ^e   Rakyan, Vardhman K ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Functional Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; epialleles; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H3; HISTONE;

AGING; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIALLELE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEOPLASM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PROCEDURES;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ALLELES; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84878006569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-5-r43     Document Type: Article

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