Methylation patterns of the human β-glucuronidase gene locus: Boundaries of methylation and general implications for frequent point mutations at CpG dinucleotides

Genomics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 363-375

  Tomatsu, Shunji ^a,b   Orii, Koji O ^a,b   Islam, M Rafiqul ^a   Shah, Gul N ^a   Grubb, Jeffrey H ^a   Sukegawa, Kazuko ^b   Suzuki, Yasuyuki ^b   Orii, Tadao ^c   Kondo, Naomi ^b   Sly, William S ^a  

^a E A Doisy Department of Biochemistry   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Chubu Women's College   (Japan)

Author keywords

CG hot spot mutation; GUSB; Methylation; Mucopolysaccharidosis VII

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENBANK; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; LEUKOCYTE; METHYLATION; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036200093     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2002.6706     Document Type: Article

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