Long-range epigenetic regulation is conferred by genetic variation located at thousands of independent loci

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lemire, Mathieu ^a   Zaidi, Syed H E ^a   Ban, Maria ^b   Ge, Bing ^c   Aïssi, Dylan ^d,e,f   Germain, Marine ^d,e,f   Kassam, Irfahan ^g   Wang, Mike ^a   Zanke, Brent W ^h   Gagnon, France ^g   Morange, Pierre Emmanuel ^i,j,k   Trégouët, David Alexandre ^d,e,f   Wells, Philip S ^h   Sawcer, Stephen ^b   Gallinger, Steven ^l,m   Pastinen, Tomi ^c   Hudson, Thomas J ^a,n  

^a ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Institute OfCardiometabolism and Nutrition   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f IHU ICAN   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

ⁱ TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^j INSERM   (France)

^k AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^l MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^m TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SUMO 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHYLATION; POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 19; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON TUMOR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84923899955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7326     Document Type: Article

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