Placental hydroxymethylation vs methylation at the imprinting control region 2 on chromosome 11p15.5
In addition to methylated cytosines (5-mCs), hydroxymethylcytosines (5-hmCs) are present in CpG dinucleotide-enriched regions and some transcription regulator binding sites. Unlike methylation, hydroxymethylation does not result in silencing of gene expression, and the most commonly used methods to...
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Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2013-11-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2013001100916&lng=en&tlng=en |