Epigenetics: A new player in the regulation of mammalian puberty

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 139-155

  Rzeczkowska, Paulina A ^a,b   Hou, Huayan ^a,c   Wilson, Michael D ^a,c   Palmert, Mark R ^a,b,d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Molecular Genetics ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Gene regulatory networks; Histone posttranslational modifications; Hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis; Hypothalamus; Puberty; Repression

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VORINOSTAT;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE DEMETHYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PUBERTY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84908648710     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000362559     Document Type: Article

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