Abstract:A CpG island is a short contiguous DNA subsequence that is rich in CG dinucleotides. CpG islands are often located around the promoters of housekeeping genes and have been found associated with certain tissue-specific genes. This observation indicates that they can be used as markers to identify genes. The information about the locations of CpG islands can also help us understand a gene regulation process called methylation. In this report, we propose a statistical method for locating CpG islands. Our method e… Show more
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