A cross-study analysis of prenatal exposures to environmental contaminants and the epigenome: Support for stress-responsive transcription factor occupancy as a mediator of gene-specific CpG methylation patterning

Environmental Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Martin, Elizabeth M ^a   Fry, Rebecca C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

CpG DNA methylation; gene specific methylation patterning; KLF15; prenatal environmental exposure; transcription factor occupancy theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014012198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvv011     Document Type: Article

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