Methylation at Global LINE-1 Repeats in Human Blood Are Affected by Gender but Not by Age or Natural Hormone Cycles

• Osman El-Maarri ,

  * E-mail: osman.elmaarri@ukb.uni-bonn.de

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Maja Walier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Frank Behne ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Jan van Üüm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Heike Singer,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Amalia Diaz-Lacava,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Nicole Nüsgen,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Barbara Niemann,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Matthias Watzka,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Jochen Reinsberg,

  Affiliation Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Hans van der Ven,

  Affiliation Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Thomas Wienker,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Birgit Stoffel-Wagner,

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Rainer Schwaab,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Johannes Oldenburg

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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