Question:
What are CpG islands ?
Author: Noura Al shalanAnswer:
They are regulatory targets that surround the promoters of constitutively expressed genes where they are unmethylated. CpG islands also are found at the promoters of some tissue-regulated genes. There are ~29,000 CpG islands in the human genome.
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