"5-Methylcytosine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A methylated nucleotide base found in eukaryotic DNA. In ANIMALS, the DNA METHYLATION of CYTOSINE to form 5-methylcytosine is found primarily in the palindromic sequence CpG. In PLANTS, the methylated sequence is CpNpGp, where N can be any base.
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D044503
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.421.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "5-Methylcytosine" by people in Profiles.
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PETCH-DB: a Portal for?Exploring Tissue-specific and?Complex disease-associated 5-Hydroxymethylcytosines. Database (Oxford). 2023 06 10; 2023.
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Genome-Wide Mapping Implicates 5-Hydroxymethylcytosines in Diabetes Mellitus and Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023; 93(3):1135-1151.
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Epigenetic Dysregulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in Well-Differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2022 02 01; 30(2):e11-e15.
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5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is strongly depleted in human cancers but its levels do not correlate with IDH1 mutations. Cancer Res. 2011 Dec 15; 71(24):7360-5.