Just say no to ATOH: How HIC1 methylation might predispose medulloblastoma to lineage addiction

Cancer Research

Volumn 68, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8654-8656

  Briggs, Kimberly J ^a   Eberhart, Charles G ^a,b   Watkins, D Neil ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATOH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME DELETION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA;

EID: 55349133789     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1904     Document Type: Review

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