A symbiotic liaison between the genetic and epigenetic code

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages 1-1

  Heyn, Holger ^a  

^a BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; DNA methylation quantitaive trait loci; Epigenetic regulation; EWAS; GWAS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905654634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00113     Document Type: Review

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