Epigenetic layers and players underlying neurodevelopment

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 460-470

  LaSalle, Janine M ^a   Powell, Weston T ^a   Yasui, Dag H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H3; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROTEOME; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG CONFORMATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE CODE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BRAIN; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84881030335     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2013.05.001     Document Type: Review

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