Inheritance of Cytosine Methylation

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 231, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2346-2352

  Tillo, Desiree ^a   Mukherjee, Sanjit ^a   Vinson, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTAMINE; REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOSINE METHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; GAMETE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; IMPRINTING CONTROL REGION; INHERITANCE; LIPID DIET; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84978427844     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25350     Document Type: Article

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