Sequence context at human single nucleotide polymorphisms: Overrepresentation of CpG dinucleotide at polymorphic sites and suppression of variation in CpG islands

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-308

  Tomso, Daniel J ^a   Bell, Douglas A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; CpG islands; Genomics; Methylation; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEAMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0037459252     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00120-7     Document Type: Article

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