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Monitoring methylation changes in cancer.
Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology - 1 Jan 2007
Beier Verena, Mund Cora, Hoheisel Jörg D
Abstract excerpt
Methylation of cytosines at their carbon-5 position plays an important role both during development and in tumorgenesis. The methylation occurs almost exclusively in CpG dinucleotides. While the bulk of human genomic DNA is depleted in CpG sites, there are CpG-rich stretches, so-called CpG islands, which are located in promoter regions of more than 70% of all known human genes. In normal cells, CpG islands are...
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