Murine diet/tissue and human brain tumorigenesis alter Mthfr/MTHFR 5′-end methylation

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 122-134

  Lévesque, Nancy ^a   Leclerc, Daniel ^a   Gayden, Tenzin ^a   Lazaris, Anthoula ^a   De Jay, Nicolas ^a   Petrillo, Stephanie ^a   Metrakos, Peter ^a   Jabado, Nada ^a   Rozen, Rima ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; CARCINOGENESIS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DIET; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CPG ISLANDS; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPLEEN;

EID: 84960122987     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-016-9624-0     Document Type: Article

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