An integrative pan-cancer-wide analysis of epigenetic enzymes reveals universal patterns of epigenomic deregulation in cancer

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Zhen ^a   Jones, Allison ^b   Widschwendter, Martin ^b   Teschendorff, Andrew E ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ONCOGENE; PAN CANCER WIDE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; NEOPLASM;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84939178416     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0699-9     Document Type: Article

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