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Lint: dna-methylation

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"The addition of a methyl group is primarily to the fifth carbon of cytosine (C), forming 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and is catalysed by DNA methyltransferases 1."

Line 3:111 · Put a space between the number and the unit in '5mC'.
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"The pattern of methylation in a specific organism or tissue sample (e.g. tumour) can be assessed by DNA-methylation profiling and is an increasingly important technique leading to novel disease identification and classification (e.g. high-grade astrocytoma with piloid features 2)."

Line 4:104 · Generally, don't use bold in text: '<strong>DNA-methylation profiling</strong>'

"The pattern of methylation in a specific organism or tissue sample (e.g. tumour) can be assessed by DNA-methylation profiling and is an increasingly important technique leading to novel disease identification and classification (e.g. high-grade astrocytoma with piloid features 2)."

Line 4:147 · Generally, don't use bold in text: 'and<strong> </strong>is an increasingly important technique leading to novel disease identification and classification (e.g'
Inline EG
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"The pattern of methylation in a specific organism or tissue sample (e.g. tumour) can be assessed by DNA-methylation profiling and is an increasingly important technique leading to novel disease identification and classification (e.g. high-grade astrocytoma with piloid features 2)."

Line 4:71 · Consider replacing a bracketed e.g. with an inline e.g. after a comma.
Semicolons
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"Rollin Hotchkiss, an American biochemist, in 1948, was responsible for the discovery - for the first time - of a methylated nitrogenous base (modified cytosine; specifically the 5-methylcytosine) in a preparation of calf thymus using paper chromatography as an investigation technique 3."

Line 6:163 · Use semicolons judiciously.