DNA methylation age is elevated in breast tissue of healthy women

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 209-219

  Sehl, Mary E ^a   Henry, Jill E ^b   Storniolo, Anna Maria ^b   Ganz, Patricia A ^a,c   Horvath, Steve ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker of aging; Breast cancer; Cell cycling; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Estrogen; Tissue aging

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREAST TISSUE; CELL CYCLE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MENOPAUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE BANK; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE BANKS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 85016502490     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-017-4218-4     Document Type: Article

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