Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Weidner, Carola I ^a   Lin, Qiong ^b   Koch, Carmen M ^a   Eisele, Lewin ^c   Beier, Fabian ^b   Ziegler, Patrick ^b   Bauerschlag, Dirk O ^b   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^c   Erbel, Raimund ^d   Mühleisen, Thomas W ^e,f   Zenke, Martin ^b   Brümmendorf, Tim H ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA; ASPARTOACYLASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ALPHA2 INTEGRIN; AMIDASE; ITGA2B PROTEIN, HUMAN; PDE4C PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE IV;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPA GENE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ITGA2B GENE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PDE4C GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREDICTION; PYROSEQUENCING; TELOMERE; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD CELL; CELL AGING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME;

AGING; AMIDOHYDROLASES; BLOOD CELLS; CELL AGING; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 4; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; INTEGRIN ALPHA2;

EID: 84896718645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r24     Document Type: Article

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