Permissive transcriptional activity at the centromere through pockets of DNA hypomethylation.
DNA methylation is a hallmark of transcriptional silencing, yet transcription has been reported at the centromere. To address this apparent paradox, we employed a fully sequence-defined ectopic human centromere (or neocentromere) to investigate the relationship between DNA methylation and transcript...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1361766?pdf=render |