Different epigenetic alterations are associated with abnormal IGF2/Igf2 upregulation in neural tube defects.

The methylation status of DNA methylation regions (DMRs) of the imprinted gene IGF2/Igf2 is associated with neural tube defects (NTDs), which are caused by a failure of the neural tube to fold and close and are the second-most common birth defect; however, the characterization of the expression leve...

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Main Authors: Baoling Bai, Qin Zhang, Xiaozhen Liu, Chunyue Miao, Shaofang Shangguan, Yihua Bao, Jin Guo, Li Wang, Ting Zhang, Huili Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4244157?pdf=render