Meanings
nounhypermethylator (plural hypermethylators)
plural hypermethylators
- 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 ].
2015 November 6, “Molecular Subtype-Specific Expression of MicroRNA-29c in Breast Cancer Is Associated with CpG Dinucleotide Methylation of the Promoter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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