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A first look at entire human methylomes

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Complete maps of DNA methylation in human cells provide insight into the epigenetic regulation of pluripotency.

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Figure 1: Comprehensive maps of the entire DNA methylome of fetal lung fibroblasts (IMR90) and ES cells (H1).

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Joseph F. Costello is at the Brain Tumor Research Center, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA,

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  2. Martin Krzywinski and Marco A. Marra are at the Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,

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Costello, J., Krzywinski, M. & Marra, M. A first look at entire human methylomes. Nat Biotechnol 27, 1130–1132 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1209-1130

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