Inventors:
Jurate Bitinaite - Rowley MA, US
Romualdas Vaisvila - Ipswich MA, US
Sriharsa Pradhan - Wenham MA, US
Yu Zheng - Topsfield MA, US
Richard J. Roberts - Wenham MA, US
Christopher Noren - Boxford MA, US
Elisabeth A. Raleigh - Somerville MA, US
Geoffrey Wilson - South Hamilton MA, US
Assignee:
NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS, INC. - Ipswich MA
International Classification:
C12Q 1/68
Abstract:
Methods and compositions are described for detecting hydroxymethylated nucleotides (hmNs) in a polynucleotide preparation with a view to mapping the location of hmNs in a genome, quantifying the occurrence of hmNs at selected loci and correlating the occurrence of hmNs with gene expression and phenotypic traits. Embodiments describe the use of modifying enzymes together with site-specific endonucleases to detect the hmNs.