What are the methods for evaluating methylation conversion?

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Stéphane Roche

If you speak about the conversion of 5methylcytosine by bisulfite conversion, you might performed methyl specific PCR or sequencing. Both works well but both need some experiments to work out. For methyl specific PCR, you need to perform one PCR for methyled DNA and one PCR for unmethyled DNA.