Genetic variants of methionine metabolism and DNA methylation

Epigenomics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 585-591

  Bleich, Stefan ^a   Semmler, Alexander ^b   Frieling, Helge ^a   Thumfart, L ^a   Muschler, Marc ^a   Hillemacher, Thomas ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Kallweit, Ulf ^b   Simon, Matthias ^c   Linnebank, Michael ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; homocysteine; methionine metabolism; single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; 5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MTR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; AGED; BLOOD; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMANS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84919822651     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.14.54     Document Type: Article

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