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Distribution of a marker of germline methylation differs between major families of transposon-derived repeats in the human genome.
Gene - 15 Jan 2012
Sigurdsson Martin I, Smith Albert V, Bjornsson Hans T, Jonsson Jon J
Abstract excerpt
A potential relationship between transposon-derived repeats (TDR) and human germline methylation is of biological importance since many genes are flanked by TDR and methylation could affect the expression of nearby genes. Furthermore, DNA methylation has been suggested as a global defense mechanism against genome instability threatened by TDR. We studied the correlation between the density of HapMap...
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