Single-cell epigenomics: Techniques and emerging applications

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 716-726

  Schwartzman, Omer ^a,b,c   Tanay, Amos ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DYNAMICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

HISTONE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84947617259     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3980     Document Type: Review

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