An Integrative Multi-scale Analysis of the Dynamic DNA Methylation Landscape in Aging

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-21

  Yuan, Tian ^a   Jiao, Yinming ^a   de Jong, Simone ^b   Ophoff, Roel A ^b   Beck, Stephan ^c   Teschendorff, Andrew E ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL MATURATION; CIS GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GRANULOCYTE; GRANULOCYTE TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGING; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84924407381     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004996     Document Type: Article

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