methylate
noun
any derivative of methyl alcohol, as sodium methylate, CH 3 ONa.
unmethylated
-
a word derived from
methylate.
Example Sentences
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Specialized enzymes are used to selectively cut away unmethylated DNA fragments, which largely originate from blood cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
These elements were highly conserved, residing in unmethylated CpG-rich regions, a trait strongly associated with their housekeeping regulatory function.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2024
Some of the methylated or unmethylated spots made sense, such as tags on genes involved in cell adhesion that might influence how easily a fertilized egg splits into two embryos.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 28, 2021
We identified SMPs by looking for sites that either were called methylated by our pipeline, or were covered by at least five reads, which we defined as an unmethylated site.
From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2013
This score reaches its maximum value of 1 when all accessions are methylated and a minimum of −1 when all accessions are unmethylated.
From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2013
