Late-replicating heterochromatin is characterized by decreased cytosine methylation in the human genome

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Figure 2.

DNA hypermethylation correlates with early DNA replication timing. Filled contour plots were drawn with two-dimensional histograms. Cytosine methylation data and replication timing data are averaged in 100-kb sliding windows. The cumulative numbers of observations are shown as color-coded levels to generate the contours. Early replicated regions are more methylated in both the fibroblast and lymphoblastoid cell types.

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  1. Genome Res. 21: 1833-1840

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