Talk:CpG island

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Going to expand this article sometime soon - watch this space. Viridae^Talk 12:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is the "p" really necessary?

What other kind of bond (other than a phosphodiester bond) would exist between two nucleotides on the same strand within a natually occuring genome? Why not just CG island? The "p" seems redundant and even suggestive of an additional phosphorylation modification.

Yea it confused me too till I read CpG site which says it differentiates between G:C basepairing. It's just a name though. Aaadddaaammm 01:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Backbond?

The phrase linked by phosphodiester bonds, in the backbond of the DNA, should this refer to the backbone of the DNA? Otherwise it would be unlikely to refer to π backbonding (Organometallic chemistry). --apers0n 15:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)