Histone Modification Patterns and Their Responses to Environment

Current environmental health reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-21

  Dai, Hongzheng ^a   Wang, Zhibin ^a,b,c  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; Environmental factors; Gene transcription; Histone acetylation; Histone code; Histone methylation; Histone modification patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906851520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21965412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-013-0008-2     Document Type: Article

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