Placenta
Volume 29 , Pages 29-35 , March 2008

Epigenetics: The DNA Methylation Profile of Tissue-Dependent and Differentially Methylated Regions in Cells

  • J. Ohgane

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Animal Resource Sciences/Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
    • ,
  • S. Yagi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Animal Resource Sciences/Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
    • ,
  • K. Shiota

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Animal Resource Sciences/Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
    • Organ Development Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki 305-3962, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Animal Resource Sciences/Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan. Tel.: +81 3 5841 5472; fax: +81 3 5841 8189.

,Accepted 26 September 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.09.011

Placenta
Volume 29 , Pages 29-35 , March 2008

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