A single whole-body low dose X-irradiation does not affect L1, B1 and IAP repeat element DNA methylation longitudinally

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Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Newman, Michelle R ^a   Sykes, Pamela J ^a   Blyth, Benjamin J ^a   Bezak, Eva ^b   Lawrence, Mark D ^a   Morel, Katherine L ^a   Ormsby, Rebecca J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

AGING; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; IONIZING RADIATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPLEEN; X IRRADIATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ONCOGENE; RADIATION RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X RAY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENES, INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLE; LIVER; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLEEN; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 84899796742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093016     Document Type: Article

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