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Article Evaluation Article: CpG Site Overall the article is very poorly organized. It gives a very brief description then goes into notation, briefly into epigenetics, toll-like receptor 9s, and then into CpG sites in humans. It was very scattered and hard to follow. I would like to have seen more structure, perhaps starting with a brief overview then transitioning to its function and ending with CpG sites in mammals and humans and having sperate sub-heading for epigenetics and notation. Some of the facts have no citations, for example:"expected to occur 0.21 * 0.21 = 4.41% of the time" or "in the human genome, which has a 42% GC content". It really stands out when a fact has a very specific number but has no citation. The stand-alone sentence "In mammals, 70% to 80% of CpG cytosines are methylated." has a citation, but after reading through the cited article, I could not pull out that piece of data, leading me to believe that it might be incorrectly cited. However, all of the citations are primary articles, which is good to see. The sub-topics are highly specialized; they contain a lot of jargon and words that lack links to their appropriate Wikipedia pages, such as neuroblastoma or colonic mucosa. This stands out to me because there is a lot of general information about CpG sites that was missing, but the page elaborates on their involvement in specific cancers. I would like to have seen more general information like how methylated CpG sites silence genes, I was surprised to see that there was no mention of impairing transcription factor binding or RNA polymerase.

Hey there! Just checking in to see how you are progressing with the wiki article so far. I noticed you're a bit behind in your draft. Feel free to drop me a line if you could use some advice or a second opinion on what you've got so far. AdamCF87 (talk) 14:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey! I'm Emily, your peer reviewer, just let me know which page you would like me to look at! Emillyjones (talk) 21:44, 18 November 2017 (UTC)