Quantitation of DNA methylation by melt curve analysis.

Background: Methylation of DNA is a common mechanism for silencing genes, and aberrant methylation is increasingly being implicated in many diseases such as cancer. There is a need for robust, inexpensive methods to quantitate methylation across a region containing a number of CpGs. We describe and...

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Publicado en:BMC Cancer Vol. 9; pp. 123 - 124
Autores principales: Smith E, Jones ME, Drew PA, Smith, Eric, Jones, Michael E, Drew, Paul A
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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