Establishing a method for measuring the DNA methylation status of specific human genes / Chrisna van Heerden

DNA methylation is an epigenetic alteration which occurs during the development and lifetime of mammalians. It has an essential gene transcription regulation function and has been shown to be a common alteration at the root of several malignancies. Regions with high concentrations of CpG sites are c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Heerden, Chrisna
Published: North-West University 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1443