Epigenome: What we learned from Rett syndrome, aneurological disease caused by mutation of a methyl-CpG binding protein

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1339-1342

  Kubota, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acquired; Dna methylation; Epigenome; Genome modification; Rett syndrome

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RETT SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MUTATION; RETT SYNDROME; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84891762449     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.53.1339     Document Type: Article

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