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DNA hypomethylation in a highly repeated DNA sequence region. Highly repeated sequence regions are mainly categorized as tandem repeats and interspersed repeats. These regions are highly methylated in normal cells to maintain genomic integrity, and hypomethylation of the regions increases genetic alterations and genomic instability, resulting cancer development.
