Dissecting DNA hypermethylation in cancer

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2078-2086

  Estécio, Marcos R H ^a   Issa, Jean Pierre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; DNA methylation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79959853446     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.12.001     Document Type: Review

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