Epigenetic regulation of hematopoiesis by DNA methylation

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue JANUARY2016, 2016, Pages

  Gore, Aniket V ^a   Athans, Brett ^a   Iben, James R ^a   Johnson, Kristin ^a   Russanova, Valya ^a   Castranova, Daniel ^a   Pham, Van N ^a   Butler, Matthew G ^a   Williams Simons, Lisa ^a   Nichols, James T ^b   Bresciani, Erica ^c   Feldman, Bejamin ^a   Kimmel, Charles B ^b   Liu, Paul P ^c   Weinstein, Brant M ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; GENOMIC DNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN C MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; HEMATOPOIESIS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84956929338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.11813     Document Type: Article

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