methylcytosine

chemical compound

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In epigenomics: Research tools of epigenomics
The base 5′-methylcytosine is abundant in genomes, and some genomes and genomic regions contain more 5′-methylcytosines than others. The ability to identify the precise locations of such modified bases on a genomic scale was made possible by the development of a technique called bisulfite sequencing, which was…
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