DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA

@article{citeulike:2676034, abstract = {An analysis of nearest neighbour dinucleotide frequencies and the level of DNA methylation in animals strongly supports the suggestion that 5-methylcytosine (5mC) tends to mutate abnormally frequently to T. This tendency is the likely cause of the CpG deficiency in heavily methylated genomes. 10.1093/nar/8.7.1499}, author = {Bird, Adrian P. }, citeulike-article-id = {2676034}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/8.7.1499}, journal = {Nucl. Acids Res.}, keywords = {cpg\_islands}, month = {April}, number = {7}, pages = {1499--1504}, posted-at = {2008-04-16 05:37:31}, priority = {2}, title = {DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/8.7.1499}, volume = {8}, year = {1980} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2676034 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2676034 TI - DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA JF - Nucl. Acids Res. VL - 8 IS - 7 SP - 1499 EP - 1504 N2 - An analysis of nearest neighbour dinucleotide frequencies and the level of DNA methylation in animals strongly supports the suggestion that 5-methylcytosine (5mC) tends to mutate abnormally frequently to T. This tendency is the likely cause of the CpG deficiency in heavily methylated genomes. 10.1093/nar/8.7.1499 KW - cpg_islands AU - Bird, Adrian PY - 1980/04/11/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/8.7.1499 ER -