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CG suppression is a term for the phenomenon that CG dinucleotides are very uncommon in most portions of vertebrate genomes.

CG suppression - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia How methylation of CpG sites followed by spontaneous deamination leads to a lack of CpG sites in methylated DNA. As a result residual CpG islands are created in areas where methylation is rare, and CpG sites stick. CG suppression is a term for the phenomenon that CG dinucleotides are very uncommon in most portions of vertebrate genomes. In adult somatic tissues, cytosine residues may be methylated , and this occurs almost exclusively within a symmetric CpG context. [ 1 ] Methylated C residues spontaneously

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