DNA methylome profiling of human tissues identifies global and tissue-specific methylation patterns

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Lokk, Kaie ^a,b,c   Modhukur, Vijayachitra ^a   Rajashekar, Balaji ^a   Märtens, Kaspar ^a   Mägi, Reedik ^c   Kolde, Raivo ^a   Koltšina, Marina ^a   Nilsson, Torbjörn K ^d   Vilo, Jaak ^a   Salumets, Andres ^a,e   Tõnisson, Neeme ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology ^*  (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; HUMAN GENOME;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84899630492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-4-r54     Document Type: Article

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