Inter-individual variability contrasts with regional homogeneity in the human brain DNA methylome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 732-744

  Illingworth, Robert S ^a,c   Gruenewald Schneider, Ulrike ^a   De Sousa, Dina ^a   Webb, Shaun ^a   Merusi, Cara ^a   Kerr, Alastair R W ^a   James, Keith D ^b   Smith, Colin ^c   Walker, Robert ^c   Andrews, Robert ^b   Bird, Adrian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHEMISTRY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84941104019     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1305     Document Type: Article

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