The interplay between DNA methylation and sequence divergence in recent human evolution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 8204-8214

  Hernando Herraez, Irene ^a   Heyn, Holger ^b   Fernandez Callejo, Marcos ^c   Vidal, Enrique ^b   Fernandez Bellon, Hugo ^d   Prado Martinez, Javier ^a   Sharp, Andrew J ^e   Esteller, Manel ^b,f   Marques Bonet, Tomas ^a,c,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^c National Institute of Bioinformatics   (Spain)

^d Parc de la Ciutadella S/n ^*  (Spain)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; GENOMICS; GORILLA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO ABELII; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO ABELII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84949024094     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv693     Document Type: Article

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