Altered methylation patterns in cancer cell genomes: Cause or consequence?

Cancer Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 299-305

  Baylin, Stephen ^a   Bestor, Timothy H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; NEOPLASM; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENOME; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036561649     PISSN: 15356108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1535-6108(02)00061-2     Document Type: Review

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