Development of a quantitative methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction method for monitoring beta cell death in type 1 diabetes.

DNA methylation is a mechanism by which cells control gene expression, and cell-specific genes often exhibit unique patterns of DNA methylation. We previously reported that the mouse insulin-2 gene (Ins2) promoter has three potential methylation (CpG) sites, all of which are unmethylated in insulin-...

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Main Authors: Mohamed I Husseiny, Akio Kuroda, Alexander N Kaye, Indu Nair, Fouad Kandeel, Kevin Ferreri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3483298?pdf=render