5-hydroxymethylcytosines regulate gene expression as a passive DNA demethylation resisting epigenetic mark in proliferative somatic cells
Alex Wei, Hongjie Zhang, Qi Qiu…·Hao Wu
This study shows that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) can regulate gene expression as an epigenetic mark in somatic cells, but not drive active DNA demethylation through replication-dependent dilution.