Cancer as an epigenetic disease: DNA methylation and chromatin alterations in human tumours

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Esteller, Manel ^a,b   Herman, James G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chromatin; DNA methylation; DNA repair; Epigenetics; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN P14; PROTEIN P15; PROTEIN P16;

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER RISK; CELL CYCLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DRUG TARGETING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036145156     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1024     Document Type: Review

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