Cancer epigenomics: DNA methylomes and histone-modification maps

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 286-298

  Esteller, Manel ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; CARMUSTINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NIMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; SIRTUIN; STREPTOZOCIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VORINOSTAT;

CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CPG ISLAND; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HISTONES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33947315736     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2005     Document Type: Review

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