designing methylation specific primers - (Sep/11/2012 )

Hi! i am really stuck and could do with some help- im trying to design methylation specific primers using methyprimer, and i input the sequence and it designs primers but also says no cpgs found- i dont get it? it is this ok or not? please forgive my ignorance i seem to be going round in circles!

Input larger up- and down-stream sequence in order to see if your region of interest is CpG rich, promoter region.

I have copied the sequence from database, however methylprimer wont accept the whole sequence as its too large- how do find the promoter region (sorry again for ignorance!)

http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/topic/20176-promoter-region/page__hl__%2Bpromoter+%2Bfind

http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/topic/19930-finding-promoter-sequence-for-gene/page__hl__%2Bpromoter+%2Bfind

http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/topic/12967-how-to-define-cpg-islands-and-what-to-do-if-they-arent-found/page__hl__+promoter%20+find#entry59286

http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/topic/10641-how-to-find-the-promoter/page__hl__%2Bpromoter+%2Bfind

hope it will help,
s.