Retrotransposon hypomethylation in melanoma and expression of a placenta-specific gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Macaulay, Erin C ^a,b   Roberts, Hester E ^a,b   Cheng, Xi ^a   Jeffs, Aaron R ^a   Baguley, Bruce C ^c   Morison, Ian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KCNH5 GENE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROPOSON; FEMALE; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

KCNH5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; RETROPOSON;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MELANOMA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 84899737844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095840     Document Type: Article

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