Hemimethylation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hemimethylation is a noun meaning partial or incomplete methylation.
Meaning
partial or incomplete methylation.
Example Sentences
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 ).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hypomethylation, unmethylation, multimethylation, hypermethylation, methylation, hypermethylator.
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