Gradual transition from mosaic to global DNA methylation patterns during deuterostome evolution

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2010, Pages

  Okamura, Kohji ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kazuaki A ^a,c   Nakai, Kenta ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION PATTERN; GENOME STABILITY; GRADUAL TRANSITION; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION; CPG ISLANDS; DEUTEROSTOMES; DINUCLEOTIDES; GLOBAL PATTERNS; IN-SILICO; LOCAL FREQUENCY;

ALKYLATION; BIOLOGY; MAMMALS; METHYLATION; GENES;

GENES; BIOINFORMATICS;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FISH; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; FISHES; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77957920814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-S7-S2     Document Type: Article

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