Methylation QTLs Are Associated with Coordinated Changes in Transcription Factor Binding, Histone Modifications, and Gene Expression Levels

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Banovich, Nicholas E ^a   Lan, Xun ^a,b   McVicker, Graham ^a,b   van de Geijn, Bryce ^a,c   Degner, Jacob F ^a,c   Blischak, John D ^a,c   Roux, Julien ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a,b   Gilad, Yoav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HISTONE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YORUBA (PEOPLE); BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; TRANSFORMED CELL LINE;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HISTONES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84907584646     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004663     Document Type: Article

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