Epigenetics of aging

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 847, Issue , 2015, Pages 179-191

  Ben Avraham, Dan ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARF PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2B; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

AGING; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CPG ISLAND; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETICS; HUMANS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84929492634     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2404-2_9     Document Type: Article

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