Hypermethylator
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 ]."
Example
More examples"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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