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- adjective biochemistry
methylated to an abnormally high degree
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In the primary tumours, island 2 was hypermethylated in 14. 5% of the samples and island 4 was hypermethylated in 54% of the samples.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Edneia Ramos 2010
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The ESR1 promoter was hypermethylated in 41% of breast tumour samples.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Edneia Ramos 2010
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Significantly, they are often found de-methylated in normal cells, but hypermethylated in cancer cells
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Cswanson 2010
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Subsequent to Sm core assembly, the snRNA cap is hypermethylated by the TGS1 methyltransferase to form 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shelton S. Bradrick et al. 2009
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(H3K4me3), are present in all the unmethylated promoters analysed, and both of them are lost when these promoters become hypermethylated.
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Lin X, Nelson WG (2003) Methyl-CpG-binding domain protein-2 mediates transcriptional repression associated with hypermethylated GSTP1 CpG islands in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
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(H3K4me3), are present in all the unmethylated promoters analysed, and both of them are lost when these promoters become hypermethylated.
Naturejobs - All Jobs F V Jacinto 2009
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We observed colocalization of hypomethylated R-DMRs with hypermethylated C-DMRs and bivalent chromatin marks, and colocalization of hypermethylated R-DMRs with hypomethylated C-DMRs and the absence of bivalent marks, suggesting two mechanisms for epigenetic reprogramming in iPS cells and cancer.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Akiko Doi 2009
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↵ † We found that, in MET-treated mice (5.2 mmol / kg twice a day for 7 days), ≈ 5\% of the total gene promoters are hypermethylated when measured by DNA methylation microarrays (NimbleGen, 5mC - ChIP-chip) (unpublished data).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2008
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5-Aza-2-deoxycytidine treatment is thought to lead to the reactivation of aberrantly hypermethylated genes
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher A. Hamm et al. 2009
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