Sequence-level mechanisms of human epigenome evolution

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1758-1771

  Prendergast, James G D ^a   Chambers, Emily V ^a   Semple, Colin A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Duplication; Epigenome; Evolution; Methylation; Paralogous

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN;

ALU SEQUENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ALU ELEMENTS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84926098534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu142     Document Type: Article

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