Meta-analysis of human methylation data for evidence of sex-specific autosomal patterns

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  McCarthy, Nina S ^a   Melton, Phillip E ^a   Cadby, Gemma ^a   Yazar, Seyhan ^a   Franchina, Maria ^a   Moses, Eric K ^a   Mackey, David A ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CpG; Genome; Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27K; Meta analysis; Methylation; Sex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; CRISP2 GENE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION ASSAY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NUPL1 GENE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLC9A2 GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPESP1 GENE; X CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGY; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84924324703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-981     Document Type: Article

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