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Figure 2 | Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology

Figure 2

From: Epigenetic regulation of asthma and allergic disease

Figure 2

Replication of methylated DNA. The palindromic nature of CpG sites is key to their inheritance (A). With replication, each separated strand carries one methylated cytosine (B). The daughter hemi-methylated DNA (C) is recognised by DNMT isoform 1 which methylates CpG sites on the new strand using the old one as a template (D).

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