Human-specific CpG 'beacons' identify human-specific prefrontal cortex H3K4me3 chromatin peaks

Epigenomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-31

  Bell, Christopher G ^a,b   Wilson, Gareth A ^a   Beck, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Comparative epigenomics; CpG islands; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; Gene regulation; Human evolution; Primate epigenetics

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; HUMANS; PRIMATES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84895422951     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.13.74     Document Type: Article

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