CpG_island (RELEASE_2.3) |
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| SO Accession: | SO:0000307 (SOWiki) |
| Definition: | Regions of a few hundred to a few thousand bases in vertebrate genomes that are relatively GC and CpG rich; they are typically unmethylated and often found near the 5' ends of genes. |
| Synonyms: | CG island |
| DB Xrefs: | SO: rd |
| Parent: | region (SO:0000001) |
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