The mitochondrial epigenome: A role in Alzheimer's disease?

Epigenomics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 665-675

  Devall, Matthew ^a   Mill, Jonathan ^a,b   Lunnon, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; 5 methylcytosine:; Alzheimer's disease; dementia; DNA methylation; epigenetics; heteroplasmy; mitochondria

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 84919817265     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.14.50     Document Type: Review

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