"A small RNA-based epigenetic gene silencing process in which small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) guide DNA methylation to the siRNA-generating genomic loci and other loci that are homologous to the siRNAs for de novo DNA methylation. This results in a heterochromatin assembly, a chromatin conformation that is refractory to transcription. In general this process consists of three phases: biogenesis of siRNAs, scaffold RNA production, and the formation of the guiding complex that recruits de novo DNA methyltransferases to the target loci. Transposable elements are silenced by this mechanism." [PMID:21420348]
There are 494 sequences with this label.
Name | Species | % in cluster | p-value | corrected p-value | action |
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Cluster_31 | Arabidopsis thaliana | 1.25 % | 7.4e-05 | 0.00063 |