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Methylation on the mind

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A study now reports the genome-wide profiling of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, an alternate epigenetic state of DNA modification, of the mouse brain across development, aging and in a neurodevelopmental disease model.

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Figure 1: A model of genome-wide shifts in 5-hmC levels targeting different classes of genes at different stages of maturation and aging.

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  1. Jonathan D. Flax and Paul D. Soloway are in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.,

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