Sharing a Placenta is Associated With a Greater Similarity in DNA Methylation in Monochorionic Versus Dichorionic Twin Pars in Blood at Age 14

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 680-685

  Bui, Masato ^a   Benyamin, Beben ^a   Shah, Sonia ^a   Henders, Anjali K ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   McRae, Allan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

chorionicity; DNA methylation; monozygotic twins

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PLACENTA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHORION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; CHORION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84951028754     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: 18392628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2015.87     Document Type: Article

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