The multifaceted interplay between lipids and epigenetics

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 288-294

  Dekkers, Koen F ^a   Slagboom, P Eline ^a   Jukema, J Wouter ^a   Heijmans, Bastiaan T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

causal inference; epigenetics; integrative genomics; lipids

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM;

EID: 84962106287     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: 14736535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOL.0000000000000301     Document Type: Review

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