Hypermethylator

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any entity responsible for hypermethylation

    "Of note, miR-29c is itself a post-transcriptional regulator of DNMT3b, and others have shown that DNMT3b is overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines with a hypermethylator phenotype [12, 38 ]."

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"Of note, miR-29c is itself a post-transcriptional regulator of DNMT3b, and others have shown that DNMT3b is overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines with a hypermethylator phenotype [12, 38 ]."

Etymology

From hyper- + methylator.

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