Bioinformatics analysis of thousands of TCGA tumors to determine the involvement of epigenetic regulators in human cancer

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Gnad, Florian ^a   Doll, Sophia ^a,b   Manning, Gerard ^a   Arnott, David ^a   Zhang, Zemin ^a,c  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; SIRTUIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; EZH2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEOME;

ACTL6A GENE; ARID1A GENE; ARTICLE; ATAD2 GENE; BAZ1A GENE; BAZ2B GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNMT1 GENE; DNMT3A GENE; DOWN REGULATION; DPF1 GENE; EPIGENETICS; EZH1 GENE; EZH2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME; HDAC10 GENE; HUMAN; KAT2B GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LYMPHOMA CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NCOA1 GENE; NEOPLASM; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; ONCOGENE; PBRM1 GENE; PRDM13 GENE; PRDM2 GENE; PREDICTION; PRMT1 GENE; PROTEOMICS; REGULATOR GENE; SETD2 GENE; SIRT1 GENE; SMARCA2 GENE; SMARCD1 GENE; SNF GENE; SUV420H2 GENE; SWI GENE; THE CANCER GENOME ATLAS; TRIM28 GENE; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WHSC1 GENE; ZMYND11 GENE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER OF ZESTE HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEOME;

EID: 84964466921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-16-S8-S5     Document Type: Article

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