DNA methylation in human epigenomes depends on local topology of CpG sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 5123-5132

  Lövkvist, Cecilia ^a   Dodd, Ian B ^b   Sneppen, Kim ^a   Haerter, Jan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETHYLATION ENZYME; ENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME; GENOME; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84976406178     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw124     Document Type: Article

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