Hypermethylation in the ZBTB20 gene is associated with major depressive disorder

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Davies, Matthew N ^a   Krause, Lutz ^b   Bell, Jordana T ^a   Gao, Fei ^c   Ward, Kirsten J ^a   Wu, Honglong ^c   Lu, Hanlin ^c   Liu, Yuan ^c   Tsai, Pei Chein ^a   Collier, David A ^a   Murphy, Therese ^d   Dempster, Emma ^d   Mill, Jonathan ^a,d   Battle, Alexis ^f   Mostafavi, Sara ^f   Zhu, Xiaowei ^f   Henders, Anjali ^b   Byrne, Enda ^b,e   Wray, Naomi R ^b,e   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   Spector, Tim D ^a   Wang, Jun ^c   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ZBTB20 GENE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS;

NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZBTB20 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84905980080     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-4-r56     Document Type: Article

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