Sex differences of leukocytes DNA methylation adjusted for estimated cellular proportions

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Inoshita, Masatoshi ^a   Numata, Shusuke ^a   Tajima, Atsushi ^a,b   Kinoshita, Makoto ^a   Umehara, Hidehiro ^a   Yamamori, Hidenaga ^c   Hashimoto, Ryota ^c,d   Imoto, Issei ^a   Ohmori, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood; Cell heterogeneity; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Leukocyte; Microarray; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027941696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-015-0029-7     Document Type: Article

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