CpG_island

Term ID

SO:0000307

Synonyms

• CG island
• CpG island

Definition

Regions of a few hundred to a few thousand bases in vertebrate genomes that are relatively GC and CpG rich; they are typically unmethylated and often found near the 5' ends of genes.

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CpG_island

Ontology

Sequence Ontology