DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Horvath, Steve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMATIN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREDICTION; PROGERIA; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD CELL; BRAIN; CELL AGING; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

PAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BRAIN; CELL AGING; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROGERIA; RECEPTORS, STEROID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84886111619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r115     Document Type: Article

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