title: How to build your own island.
abstract: Inserting artificially-generated 'DNA islands' into a genome has shed new light on why some DNA sequences are methylated and others are not.
authors.affiliation: Colum Walsh is at the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom cp.walsh@ulster.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Colum
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-7506
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.affiliation: Avinash Thakur is at the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom thakur-a@email.ulster.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Avinash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thakur
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002843:Chromatin / Q000737:chemistry*; D018899:CpG Islands / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin
keywords: CpG islands; DNA methylation; bivalent chromatin; chromosomes; epigenetics; evolutionary biology; genes; genomics; high throughput genome editing; histone modifications; human; mouse