The epigenetic landscape of Alu repeats delineates the structural and functional genomic architecture of colon cancer cells

Genome Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 118-132

  Jordà, Mireia ^a,b   Díez Villanueva, Anna ^a,b   Mallona, Izaskun ^a,b   Martín, Berta ^a,b   Lois, Sergi ^a,b   Barrera, Víctor ^a,b   Esteller, Manel ^c,d,e   Vavouri, Tanya ^a,f   Peinado, Miguel A ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ EN CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC)   (Spain)

^c BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f JOSEP CARRERAS LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE IJC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BISULFITE SEQUENCING; CANCER CELL; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING OF UNMETHYLATED ALU; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; COLON TUMOR; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME;

ALU ELEMENTS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS;

EID: 85009115714     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.207522.116     Document Type: Article

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