Coordinated epigenetic remodelling of transcriptional networks occurs during early breast carcinogenesis

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Locke, Warwick J ^a,b   Zotenko, Elena ^a,b   Stirzaker, Clare ^a,b   Robinson, Mark D ^c   Hinshelwood, Rebecca A ^a,d   Stone, Andrew ^a,b   Reddel, Roger R ^e,f   Huschtscha, Lily I ^e   Clark, Susan J ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal breast cancer; Biomarker; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenome sequencing; Methylome

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; DNA; HISTONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MYC PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM CELL; CELL AGING; CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983042609     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0086-0     Document Type: Article

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