Preferred Label : CpG islands;
MeSH definition : Areas of increased density of the dinucleotide sequence cytosine--phosphate diester--guanine.
They form stretches of DNA several hundred to several thousand base pairs long. In
humans there are about 45,000 CpG islands, mostly found at the 5' ends of genes. They
are unmethylated except for those on the inactive X chromosome and some associated
with imprinted genes.;
MeSH synonym : cpg island; island, cpg-rich; islands, cpg; islands, cpg-rich; island, cpg; cpg-rich islands; cpg rich islands; cpg-rich island;
Related MeSH term : CpG clusters; Cluster, CpG; Clusters, CpG; CpG Cluster;
Is substance : O;
Origin ID : D018899;
UMLS CUI : C0282523;
Allowable qualifiers
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Indexing information
- Record concept(s)
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
Areas of increased density of the dinucleotide sequence cytosine--phosphate diester--guanine.
They form stretches of DNA several hundred to several thousand base pairs long. In
humans there are about 45,000 CpG islands, mostly found at the 5' ends of genes. They
are unmethylated except for those on the inactive X chromosome and some associated
with imprinted genes.
