Absence of genomic hypomethylation or regulation of cytosine-modifying enzymes with aging in male and female mice

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hadad, Niran ^a,b   Masser, Dustin R ^b,c   Logan, Sreemathi ^b   Wronowski, Benjamin ^b,c   Mangold, Colleen A ^d   Clark, Nicholas ^b,c   Otalora, Laura ^b,c   Unnikrishnan, Archana ^b   Ford, Matthew M ^e   Giles, Cory B ^f   Wren, Jonathan D ^c,f   Richardson, Arlan ^b,c,g   Sonntag, William E ^b,c   Stanford, David R ^b,c   Freeman, Willard ^a,b,c  

^a Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience   (United States)

^b Reynolds Oklahoma Center on Aging   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5hmC; 5mC; Aging; DNA hydroxymethylation; DNA methylation; DNMT; Hippocampus; TET

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DIOXYGENASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNMT3A2 PROTEIN; TET METHYLCYTOSINE DIOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BASED SEQUENCING; ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOMIC HYPOMETHYLATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE BISULFITE SEQUENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84978745106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0080-6     Document Type: Article

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