Material
The chip contains 27,578 individual CpG sites, spread across 14,495 genes. These genes include RefSeq genes from the NCBI CCDS Database, cancer genes that show differential methylation patterns during their course of progression and microRNA promoters. The markers included in the chip are summarized in Table 1.
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