Sentences with phrase «methylated than genes»

Transposon element sites were far more likely to be methylated than genes, which tended to be demethylated.

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In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

The researchers found more than 9000 genes that were either more or less likely to be methylated depending on whether the subject was lean or obese.

Molecular profiling of large tumour numbers has also allowed the annotation of more than 13 million non-coding mutations, 18 029 gene fusions, 187 429 genome rearrangements, 1 271 436 abnormal copy number segments, 9 175 462 abnormal expression variants and 7 879 142 differentially methylated CpG dinucleotides.

Gene promoters more methylated in CPA have higher CpG density than the average CpG content of all promoters analyzed (p < 6.3E - 27).