DNA methylation and chromatin structure:
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Paola Caiafa; Michele Zampieri
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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DNA methylation is the epigenetic modification, which introduces 5mC as fifth base onto DNA. As for the distribution of 5mCs, it is well known that they distribute themselves in a non-random fashion in genomic DNA so that methylation pattern is characterized by the presence of methylated cytosines o