"CpG Islands" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Areas of increased density of the dinucleotide sequence cytosine--phosphate diester--guanine. They form stretches of DNA several hundred to several thousand base pairs long. In humans there are about 45,000 CpG islands, mostly found at the 5' ends of genes. They are unmethylated except for those on the inactive X chromosome and some associated with imprinted genes.
| Descriptor ID |
D018899
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.080.380.160 G05.360.080.380.160 G05.360.340.024.159
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| Concept/Terms |
CpG Islands- CpG Islands
- CpG Island
- Island, CpG
- Islands, CpG
- CpG-Rich Islands
- CpG Rich Islands
- CpG-Rich Island
- Island, CpG-Rich
- Islands, CpG-Rich
CpG Clusters- CpG Clusters
- Cluster, CpG
- Clusters, CpG
- CpG Cluster
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| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "CpG Islands" by people in Profiles.
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AI-driven feature selection and epigenetic pattern analysis: A screening strategy of CpGs validated by pyrosequencing for body fluid identification. Forensic Sci Int. 2025 Feb; 367:112339.
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Influence of Electron-Holes on DNA Sequence-Specific Mutation Rates. Genome Biol Evol. 2018 04 01; 10(4):1039-1047.
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DNA modification study of major depressive disorder: beyond locus-by-locus comparisons. Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 01; 77(3):246-255.
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Large conserved domains of low DNA methylation maintained by Dnmt3a. Nat Genet. 2014 Jan; 46(1):17-23.
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Chromatin changes in dicer-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells in response to retinoic acid induced differentiation. PLoS One. 2013; 8(9):e74556.