...specific single-CpG dinucleotides or amplicons. These include MethyLight ( Eads et al. 2000 ), COBRA ( Xiong and Laird 1997 ), bisulfite pyrosequencing
( Dupont et al. 2004 ), and the Illumina GoldenGate methylation assay ( Bibikova et al. 2006 ). While sensitive, specific, and relatively inexpensive, none...