DNA methylation: conducting the orchestra from exposure to phenotype?

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Leenen, Fleur A D ^a,b   Muller, Claude P ^a,b   Turner, Jonathan D ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association studies; Biomarker; DNA methylation; EWAS; Gene environment interactions; Transcriptional microvariability

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; ISOPROTEIN; NR3C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CPG ISLAND; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5-METHYLCYTOSINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 84985960447     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-016-0256-8     Document Type: Review

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