Polymorphic tandem repeats within gene promoters act as modifiers of gene expression and DNA methylation in humans

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3750-3762

  Quilez, Javier ^a,g   Guilmatre, Audrey ^a,h   Garg, Paras ^a   Highnam, Gareth ^b   Gymrek, Melissa ^c,d,e   Erlich, Yaniv ^c,f   Joshi, Ricky S ^a   Mittelman, David ^b   Sharp, Andrew J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^g CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^h INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84966372525     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw219     Document Type: Article

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