Single-Cell DNA Methylation Profiling: Technologies and Biological Applications

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 952-965

  Karemaker, Ino D ^a   Vermeulen, Michiel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; epigenetics; gene expression; single cell technologies

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLATION;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; SINGLE CELLS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

5 CARBOXYLCYTOSINE; 5 FORMYLCYTOSINE; 5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA;

COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; PROTEOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; NEURONS; PROTEOMICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85046346648     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.04.002     Document Type: Review

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