Implications of genomic signatures in the differential vulnerability to fetal alcohol exposure in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Lossie, Amy C ^a,c   Muir, William M ^a,b   Lo, Chiao Ling ^b   Timm, Floyd ^b   Liu, Yunlong ^b   Gray, Whitney ^b   Zhou, Feng C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Gene expression; Gene x environment interactions; Genetic association; Genomics; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX SUBUNIT 1; ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX SUBUNIT 8; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CUTANEOUS T CELL ATTRACTING CHEMOKINE; DISHEVELLED 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; MICRORNA; PANTOTHENATE KINASE 2; PROTEIN KINASE B BETA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TACHYKININ; TETRASPANIN; TETRASPANIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX21; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL 3; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 157;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 84906226860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00173     Document Type: Article

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