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hemimethylation

hemimethylation noun: partial or incomplete methylation.

Noun

hemimethylation (uncountable)

  1. partial or incomplete methylation
    • 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 ).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

Origin of hemimethylation

From hemi- + methylation.

Questions about hemimethylation

What does hemimethylation mean?
Hemimethylation means partial or incomplete methylation.
What part of speech is hemimethylation?
Hemimethylation is a noun.

Words near hemimethylation in the dictionary

  1. hemimetabolous
  2. hemimetaboly
  3. hemimetameric
  4. hemimetamorphosis
  5. hemimethylated
  6. hemimethylation
  7. hemimetric
  8. hemimetrics
  9. hemimicelle
  10. hemimicelles
  11. hemimorphic

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