Identification of a class of human cancer germline genes with transcriptional silencing refractory to the hypomethylating drug 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine

Oncoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 745-750

  Almatrafi, Ahmed ^a,b   Feichtinger, Julia ^c,d   Vernon, Ellen G ^a   Escobar, Natalia Gomez ^a   Wakeman, Jane A ^a   Larcombe, Lee D ^e   McFarlane, Ramsay J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer testis antigen; Gene silencing; Germline gene; Hypomethylation; Oncogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928028793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23314737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncoscience.95     Document Type: Article

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