Epigenome-wide profiling identifies significant differences in DNA methylation between matched-pairs of T- and B-lymphocytes from healthy individuals

Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1188-1197

  Glossop, John R ^a,b   Nixon, Nicola B ^b   Emes, Richard D ^c   Haworth, Kim E ^a   Packham, Jon C ^b   Dawes, Peter T ^b   Fryer, Anthony A ^a   Mattey, Derek L ^a,b   Farrell, William E ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HAYWOOD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B lymphocyte; CpG; DNA methylation; Genome wide; Illumina 450K array; Rheumatoid arthritis; T lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; CLPTM1L GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DDAH2 GENE; DENND2D GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GIMAP7 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; LINE 1 RETROPOSON; NORMAL HUMAN; PITPNC1 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RETROPOSON; RNH1 GENE; SLC7A5 GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

B-LYMPHOCYTE; CPG; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME-WIDE; ILLUMINA 450K ARRAY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTE;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84887446019     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26265     Document Type: Article

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