Age-associated epigenetic drift: Implications, and a case of epigenetic thrift?

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue R1, 2013, Pages

  Teschendorff, Andrew E ^a   West, James ^a   Beck, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRECURSOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STEM CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AGING; CELL AGING; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84884784742     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt375     Document Type: Article

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