Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypermethylator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-me-thy-la-tor
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any entity responsible for hypermethylation

Example Sentences

"Of note, miR-29c is itself a post-transcriptional regulator of DNMT3b, and others have shown that DNMT3b is overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines with a hypermethylator phenotype [12, 38 ]."

Etymology

From hyper- + methylator.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hyper

Inflected Forms

hypermethylators (plural)

Questions

What does hypermethylator mean?: Any entity responsible for hypermethylation
Where does hypermethylator come from?: From hyper- + methylator.

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