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Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning.
Nature - 13 Mar 2008
Cokus Shawn J, Feng Suhua, Zhang Xiaoyu, Chen Zugen, Merriman Barry, Haudenschild Christian D, Pradhan Sriharsa, Nelson Stanley F, Pellegrini Matteo, Jacobsen Steven E
Abstract excerpt
Cytosine DNA methylation is important in regulating gene expression and in silencing transposons and other repetitive sequences. Recent genomic studies in Arabidopsis thaliana have revealed that many endogenous genes are methylated either within their promoters or within their transcribed regions...
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