Genetic-epigenetic interactions in cis: A major focus in the post-GWAS era

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Do, Catherine ^a   Shearer, Alyssa ^a   Suzuki, Masako ^b   Terry, Mary Beth ^c   Gelernter, Joel ^d   Greally, John M ^b   Tycko, Benjamin ^e  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPE DEPENDENT ALLELE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; ALLELE; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85021098302     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1250-y     Document Type: Review

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