Placental pseudo-malignancy from a DNA methylation perspective: Unanswered questions and future directions

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Novakovic, Boris ^a   Saffery, Richard ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer invasion; DNA methylation; Epigenomics; Global hypomethylation; Hypermethylation; Placental invasion; Trophoblasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892406751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00285     Document Type: Note

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