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hypermethylator

hypermethylator noun: any entity responsible for hypermethylation.

Noun

hypermethylator (plural hypermethylators)

  1. Any entity responsible for hypermethylation
    • Of note, miR-29c is itself a post-transcriptional regulator of DNMT3b, and others have shown that DNMT3b is overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines with a hypermethylator phenotype [12, 38 ].2015 November 6, “Molecular Subtype-Specific Expression of MicroRNA-29c in Breast Cancer Is Associated with CpG Dinucleotide Methylation of the Promoter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of hypermethylator

pluralhypermethylators

Origin of hypermethylator

From hyper- + methylator.

Questions about hypermethylator

What does hypermethylator mean?
Hypermethylator means any entity responsible for hypermethylation.
What part of speech is hypermethylator?
Hypermethylator is a noun.
What is the plural of hypermethylator?
The plural of hypermethylator is hypermethylators.

Words near hypermethylator in the dictionary

  1. hypermethylated
  2. hypermethylates
  3. hypermethylating
  4. hypermethylation
  5. hypermethylations
  6. hypermethylator
  7. hypermethylators
  8. hypermethylome
  9. hypermethylomes
  10. hypermeticulous
  11. hypermeticulousness

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