hemimethylation

English

Etymology

hemi- +‎ methylation

Noun

hemimethylation (uncountable)

  1. partial or incomplete methylation
    • 2016 February 13, “Genome-Wide Identification of Epigenetic Hotspots Potentially Related to Cardiovascular Risk in Adult Women after a Complicated Pregnancy”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0148313:
      The unaffected twins showed hemimethylation of 4 (boxes) out of 16 methylation sensitive C nucleotides ( C1+C2 ) and hypomethylation (loss of methylation) in affected twins ( C3+C4 ).
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