A similar cell-specific pattern of HOXA methylation in normal and in cancer tissues

Epigenetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-46

  Avraham, Ayelet ^a   Sandbank, Judith ^a   Yarom, Nirit ^a   Shalom, Avshalom ^a   Karni, Tami ^a   Pappo, Itzhak ^a   Sella, Avishay ^a   Fich, Alexander ^b   Walfisch, Shlomo ^b   Gheber, Larisa ^c   Evron, Ella ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cell type specific methylation; DNA methylation; Genome wide methylation array; HOX genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER TISSUE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLON CARCINOMA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENOME; HOX GENE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; METHYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STROMA;

EID: 77449087922     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.5.1.10724     Document Type: Article

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