Discordance of DNA methylation variance between two accessible human tissues

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 8257-

  Jiang, Ruiwei ^a   Jones, Meaghan J ^a   Chen, Edith ^b   Neumann, Sarah M ^a   Fraser, Hunter B ^c   Miller, Gregory E ^b   Kobor, Michael S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUTH MUCOSA; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84922998536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08257     Document Type: Article

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