CpG islands as gene markers in the human genome

F Larsen, G Gundersen, R Lopez, H Prydz - Genomics, 1992 - Elsevier
human genes for their relations to CpG islands and to estimate what fraction of the genes and
what kind of genes were associated with islands. … most of the CpG islands identified in this …

Number of CpG islands and genes in human and mouse.

F Antequera, A Bird - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
… associated with CpG islands whose … CpG islands per haploid genome in humans and
37,000 in the mouse. Sequence comparison confirms that about 20% of the human CpG islands

Comprehensive analysis of CpG islands in human chromosomes 21 and 22

D Takai, PA Jones - Proceedings of the national academy of …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
… We designed an algorithm to search for and describe CpG islands, and we suggest a …
CpG islands not located within the promoters of genes. This more rigorous description of a CpG

CpG islands and genes

SH Cross, AP Bird - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1995 - Elsevier
… Of the estimated 45 000 CpG islands in the human genome, the overwhelming majority are
… origin of CpG islands. It has been shown unequivocally that CpG islands are concentrated in …

[HTML][HTML] CpG islands–'a rough guide'

RS Illingworth, AP Bird - FEBS letters, 2009 - Elsevier
CpG islands located within a region of human chromosome 19. The upper panel illustrates
a 65 kb portion of human … genes (blue bars) and four CpG islands. The promoters of OCEL1, …

Contrasting chromatin organization of CpG islands and exons in the human genome

JK Choi - Genome biology, 2010 - Springer
… Here I show that CpG islands were associated not only with methylation-free promoters
but … containing a CpG island. However, the DNA sequences of CpG islands predicted the …

Fundamental diversity of human CpG islands at multiple biological levels

J Zeng, HK Nagrajan, SV Yi - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
CpG island annotation and methylation The annotations of the CpG islands used in this
study were downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser.Citation 55 These CGIs are …

Developmental programming of CpG island methylation profiles in the human genome

R Straussman, D Nejman, D Roberts… - Nature structural & …, 2009 - nature.com
… Many laboratories have attempted to map the genomic methylation pattern of CpG islands
in normal human tissues, but most of these studies were limited to a few tissues, to promoter …

CpG islands

F Antequera, A Bird - DNA methylation: molecular biology and biological …, 1993 - Springer
… of the tissuespecific genes which are not thought to be essential for survival in tissue
culture (eg mouse Thyl, MHC Class I and human alpha globin), were frequently methylated. …

Large-scale human promoter mapping using CpG islands

IP Ioshikhes, MQ Zhang - Nature genetics, 2000 - nature.com
… non-associated CpG islands, we initially divided a training set of CpG islands into four
classes, based on the relationship of a CpG island to TSS. TSS-containing CpG islands (class 1) …