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Detection of dioxin-induced demethylation of mouse <i>Cyp1a1</i> gene promoter by a new labeling method for short DNA fragments possessing 5'-methylcytosine at the end.

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Environmental factors stimulate alteration of DNA methylation level. Investigation of the genome-wide DNA methylation status is important for environmental health studies. We here designed a genomic DNA amplification and labeling protocol using a methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme HinP1 I. This method can specifically amplify genomic DNA fragments possessing methyl-CpG at the end. The fragments are a relatively short size and dominantly located on CpG-islands. By using the samples prepared by this method, a dioxin-induced change in the methylation level of the mouse Cyp1a1 promoter was successfully evaluated using oligonucleotide probes covalently bound onto a glass plate. The method developed in this paper would be useful for other genome-wide analysis platforms for the large scale epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) including human epidemiological samples.

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0
Journal
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Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society
Volume
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40
Number of Pages
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1
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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1880-7046
URL
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https://genesenvironment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41021-017-0089-5
DOI
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10.1186/s41021-017-0089-5
Short Title
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Genes Environ
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