Epigenetic loss of the piwi/pirna machinery in human testicular tumorigenesis

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-118

  Ferreira, Humberto J ^a,b   Heyn, Holger ^a   Muro, Xavier Garcia del ^a   Vidal, August ^c   Larriba, Sara ^a   Muñoz, Clara ^a   Villanueva, Alberto ^a   Esteller, Manel ^a,d,e  

^a BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Non coding RNA; piRNAs; PIWI proteins; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWIL1 PROTEIN; PIWIL2 PROTEIN; PIWIL4 PROTEIN; TDRD1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CPG ISLANDS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; METHYLATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84891931351     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.27237     Document Type: Article

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