hypermethylator

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ methylator.

Noun

hypermethylator (plural hypermethylators)

1. Any entity responsible for hypermethylation
   • 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^[1], →DOI:

     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 ].