The influence of menstrual cycle and endometriosis on endometrial methylome

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Saare, Merli ^a,b   Modhukur, Vijayachitra ^b   Suhorutshenko, Marina ^a   Rajashekar, Balaji ^b   Rekker, Kadri ^a,b   Sõritsa, Deniss ^a,b,c,d   Karro, Helle ^b,d   Soplepmann, Pille ^d   Sõritsa, Andrei ^c   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^e   Rahmioglu, Nilufer ^e   Drong, Alexander ^e   Becker, Christian M ^f   Zondervan, Krina T ^e,f   Salumets, Andres ^a,b   Peters, Maire ^a,b  

^a Competence Centre on Health Technologies Tartu ^*  (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c Elite Clinic   (Estonia)

^d TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Endometriosis; Endometrium; Epigenetics; Illumina 450K; Menstrual cycle; Microarray

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AHRR GENE; AKR1B1 GENE; APEH GENE; ARTICLE; CANT1 GENE; CLCF1 GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; CST11 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELOVL4 GENE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FGG GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HBE1 GENE; HIVEP3 GENE; HOXA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LTK GENE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MGAT5B GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUC4 GENE; NEGR1 GENE; P13 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SLC43A3 GENE; SMOKING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84953856725     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0168-z     Document Type: Article

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