DNA Methylation Divergence and Tissue Specialization in the Developing Mouse Placenta

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1702-1712

  Decato, Benjamin E ^a   Lopez Tello, Jorge ^b   Sferruzzi Perri, Amanda N ^b   Smith, Andrew D ^a   Dean, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenome; Junctional zone; Labyrinthine zone; Placenta

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLAND; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENOME; FEMALE; GENOTYPING; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGION; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCING; TROPHOBLAST; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85032463499     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/MOLBEV/MSX112     Document Type: Article

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