Methylomic trajectories across human fetal brain development

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 338-352

  Spiers, Helen ^a   Hannon, Eilis ^b   Schalkwyk, Leonard C ^c   Smith, Rebecca ^a   Wong, Chloe C Y ^a   O'Donovan, Michael C ^d   Bray, Nicholas J ^a   Mill, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOSOME; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLAND; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ONTOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; X CHROMOSOME; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BASE COMPOSITION; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84923928121     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.180273.114     Document Type: Article

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