Systematic identification and annotation of human methylation marks based on bisulfite sequencing methylomes reveals distinct roles of cell type-specific hypomethylation in the regulation of cell identity genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-94

  Liu, Hongbo ^a   Liu, Xiaojuan ^a   Zhang, Shumei ^a   Lv, Jie ^b   Li, Song ^a   Shang, Shipeng ^a   Jia, Shanshan ^a   Wei, Yanjun ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Su, Jianzhong ^a   Wu, Qiong ^b   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CHROMATIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHROMATIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; BIOMARKERS; CHROMATIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84959485571     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1332     Document Type: Article

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