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nonmethylation

nonmethylation noun: absence of methylation.

Noun

nonmethylation (uncountable)

  1. Absence of methylation.
    • In detail, we determined inactivation of the short allele (pattern S) based on the following conditions: (1) dominant methylation pattern at the fluorescent peak area of the short allele and (2) dominant nonmethylation pattern at the long allele […]2015 April 17, Tadao Nakazawa et al., “Multicentric occurrence of multiple papillary thyroid carcinomas –HUMARA and BRAF mutation analysis”, in Cancer Medicine, volume 4, →DOI

Origin of nonmethylation

From non- + methylation.

Questions about nonmethylation

What does nonmethylation mean?
Nonmethylation means absence of methylation.
What part of speech is nonmethylation?
Nonmethylation is a noun.

Words near nonmethylation in the dictionary

  1. nonmethodical
  2. nonmethodological
  3. nonmethoxylated
  4. nonmethylatable
  5. nonmethylated
  6. nonmethylation
  7. nonmeticulous
  8. nonmetric
  9. nonmetrical
  10. nonmetricity
  11. nonmetrisable

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