Targeting the cancer epigenome for therapy

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 630-641

  Jones, Peter A ^a   Issa, Jean Pierre J ^b   Baylin, Stephen ^a,c  

^a VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG RESPONSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HISTONES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84987781487     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.93     Document Type: Review

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