The history of cancer epigenetics

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-153

  Feinberg, Andrew P ^a   Tycko, Benjamin ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 1042278765     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1279     Document Type: Review

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