DNA methylation dynamics during B cell maturation underlie a continuum of disease phenotypes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 253-264

  Oakes, Christopher C ^a,e   Seifert, Marc ^b   Assenov, Yassen ^a   Gu, Lei ^c,d   Przekopowitz, Martina ^b   Ruppert, Amy S ^e   Wang, Qi ^a   Imbusch, Charles D ^a   Serva, Andrius ^a   Koser, Sandra D ^a   Brocks, David ^a   Lipka, Daniel B ^a   Bogatyrova, Olga ^a   Weichenhan, Dieter ^a   Brors, Benedikt ^a   Rassenti, Laura ^f   Kipps, Thomas J ^f   Mertens, Daniel ^a,g   Zapatka, Marc ^a   Lichter, Peter ^a,e   Döhner, Hartmut ^g   Küppers, Ralf ^b   Zenz, Thorsten ^a,h   Stilgenbauer, Stephan ^a   Byrd, John C ^e   Plass, Christoph ^a   more..

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CHILD; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DYNAMICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; BIOSYNTHESIS; CPG ISLAND; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BINDING SITES; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84959519942     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3488     Document Type: Article

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