The human placental methylome

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Robinson, Wendy P ^a,b   Price, E Magda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84930507234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023044     Document Type: Article

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