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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2017 Mar 1;36:103–110. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.12.007

FIGURE 1. Stylized patterns and types of genic DNA methylation in land plants.

FIGURE 1

Genes can be categorized into different groups based on enrichment of DNA methylation in exonic sequence, which is deposited by different mechanisms. (a) UM: no enrichment of mCG, mCHG, mCHH; (b) gbM: enrichment of mCG only; (c) TSS: enrichment of mCG only at the TSS; (d) CG/CHG: enrichment for mCG and mCHG; and (e) RdDM: enrichment of mCHH. Additionally, the distribution of DNA methylation across the gene-body is indicative of mechanism and molecular consequences.