Protection of CpG islands from DNA methylation is DNA-encoded and evolutionarily conserved
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Protection of CpG islands from DNA methylation is DNA-encoded and evolutionarily conserved
DNA methylation is a repressive epigenetic modification that covers vertebrate genomes. Regions known as CpG islands (CGIs), which are refractory to DNA methylation, are often associated with gene promoters and play central roles in gene regulation. Yet how CGIs in their normal genomic context evade the DNA methylation machinery and whether these mechanisms are evolutionarily conserved remains ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw258