Article
Frequency of abnormal human haemoglobins caused by C----T transitions in CpG dinucleotides.
Journal of molecular biology - 20 May 1990
Perutz M F
Abstract excerpt
A large part of human genetic disease apparently arises from deamination of cytosine residues in methylated CpG dinucleotides. Their mutation rate is known to be high when C is present as 5-methyl-cytosine, but is believed to be normal when it is unmethylated. The beta-globin gene contains five, the gamma-globin gene two, and each of the alpha-globin genes contains 35 CpG dinucleotides. The CpG dinucleotides in...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Dinucleoside Phosphates
- Globins
- Hemoglobins
- Humans
- Methylation
- Mutation
