Profiling genome-wide DNA methylation

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yong, Wai Shin ^a   Hsu, Fei Man ^b   Chen, Pao Yang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bisulfite sequencing; DNA methylation; Hydroxymethylation; Methylome; RRBS; Single cell; WGBS

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE;

AFFINITY ENRICHMENT BASED METHOD; ALIGNING BISULFITE; BIOINFORMATICS; BISULFITE CONVERSION BASED METHOD; COMMERCIAL DNA METHYLATION ASSAY KIT; COMPREHENSIVE HIGH THROUGHPUT ARRAYS FOR RELATIVE METHYLATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA INPUT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYDROXYMETHYLATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHYLATED DNA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METHYLATION ARRAY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NANOPORE SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE BISULFITE SEQUENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REDUCED REPRESENTATION BISULFITE SEQUENCING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL METHYLOME; SINGLE MOLECULE REAL TIME SEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TET ASSISTED BISULFITE SEQUENCING; WHOLE GENOME BISULFITE SEQUENCING;

EID: 84978880027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0075-3     Document Type: Review

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