methylome

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Hellenic *métʰu

Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu)

Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?

Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.

German -yl

German Methylbor.

English methyl

English -ome

English methylome

From methyl + -ome.

Noun

methylome (plural methylomes)

1. (genetics) The set of nucleic acid methylation modifications in an organism's genome or in a particular cell.
   • 2019, He-Feng Huan et al., “16: The Intergenerational Effects on Fetal Programming”, in Peter C. K. Leung, Jie Qiao, editors, Human Reproductive and Prenatal Genetics, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 372:

     The reprogramming of parental methylomes is essential for embryonic development.

Derived terms

• hydroxymethylome
• hypermethylome
• methylomic
• methylomics

Related terms

• epigenome
• genome
• metabolome
• proteome
• transcriptome

See also

• methylation

Further reading

• DNA methylation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia