Our first insight came from the characterisation of a mutation that disrupts the silencing property of
methylated cytosines.
Not exact matches
They found that in the HSCs of healthy people, most DNA
cytosines (one of four main components of DNA) are
methylated.
Previous studies have shown that
cytosine can exist in two forms, one of which is the
methylated version methylcytosine.
CpG, regions of DNA in which a
cytosine nucleotide occurs next to a guanine nucleotide separated by only one phosphate; TNF, Tumor necrosis factor; SES, socioeconomic status; DMR, Differentially
methylated Region