Medical Definition of Cpg islands

1. Areas of increased density of the dinucleotide sequence guanine--phosphate diester--cytosine. They form stretches of DNA several hundred base pairs long and number about 30,000 islands in the mammalian genome. They are unmethylated and the site of frequent mutations. Many of the genes with which the islands are associated are housekeeping genes that are constitutively expressed. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cpg Islands

cozinesses
cozing
cozy
cozy up
cozying
cozymase
cozzer
cozzes
cozzie
cozzies
coæqual
coætaneous
coæval
cp.
cpg-rich island
cpg islands (current term)
cps
craal
craaled
craaling
craals
crab-apple
crab-eater
crab-eating dog
crab-eating fox
crab-eating macaque
crab-eating opossum
crab-eating raccoon

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