Gender-specific postnatal demethylation and establishment of epigenetic memory

Genes and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 923-933

  Reizel, Yitzhak ^a   Spiro, Adam ^b   Sabag, Ofra ^a   Skversky, Yael ^a   Hecht, Merav ^a   Keshet, Ilana ^a   Berman, Benjamin P ^c   Cedar, Howard ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetic memory; Gender specific genes; Gene expression; Liver

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; PROTEIN BCL 6; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; HISTONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETIC MEMORY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CASTRATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTONES; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84929469179     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.259309.115     Document Type: Article

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