The evolutionary significance of DNA methylation in human genome
In eukaryotic genomes ranging from plants to mammals, DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification of DNA by adding a methyl group exclusively to cytosine residuals. In mammalian genomes such as humans, these cytosine bases are usually followed by guanine. Although it does not change the pri...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50308 |