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DNA Methylation: Basic Mechanisms

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-3-540-31390-8

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The structural and functional importance of the correct patterns of DNA methylation in all parts of a mammalian genome is not well understood. The stability, inheritability, and developmental flexibility of these patterns point to a major role that these patterns appear to play in determining structure and function of the genome.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, DNA, DNA repair, Promoter, cytosine methylation, development, dual inheritance system, epigenetic information, human genome, methylation patterns, methyltransferase, translation