Functional DNA methylation in a transcript specific 3′UTR region of TrkB associates with suicide

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1061-1070

  Maussion, Gilles ^a   Yang, Jennie ^a   Suderman, Matthew ^b   Diallo, Alpha ^a   Nagy, Corina ^a   Arnovitz, Mitchell ^a   Mechawar, Naguib ^a   Turecki, Gustavo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; BA8 9; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Luciferase assay; Suicide; TrkB T1

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TROPOMYOSIN-RELATED KINASE-B, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905666955     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.29068     Document Type: Article

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