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DNA methylation and cancer.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 May 2000
Momparler R L, Bovenzi V
Abstract excerpt
The methylation of DNA is an epigenetic modification that can play an important role in the control of gene expression in mammalian cells. The enzyme involved in this process is DNA methyltransferase, which catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-methionine to cytosine residues to form 5-methylcytosine, a modified base that is found mostly at CpG sites in the genome. The presence of methylated...
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