Sex differences in DNA methylation assessed by 450K BeadChip in newborns

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yousefi, Paul ^a   Huen, Karen ^a   Davé, Veronica ^a   Barcellos, Lisa ^a   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a   Holland, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth cohort; Cord blood; Epigenetics; EWAS; Gender; Gene ontology

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; BEHAVIOR; CELL COMPOSITION; CHILD; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE ONTOLOGY; GIRL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; NEWBORN;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 84946548151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2034-y     Document Type: Article

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