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Fig. 1. Bisulfite conversion. DNA is denatured and then treated with sodium bisulfite to convert unmethylated cytosine to uracil, which is converted to thymine by PCR. An important point is that following bisulfite conversion, the DNA strands are no longer complementary, and primers are designed to assay the methylation (m) status of a specific strand.





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