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We have discovered a distinct DNA-methylation boundary at a site between 650 and 800 nucleotides upstream of the CGG repeat in the first exon of the human FMR1 gene. This boundary, identified by bisulfite sequencing, is present in all human cell lines and cell types, irrespective of age, gender, and developmental stage. The same boundary is found also in different mouse tissues, although sequence...