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Epigenetic changes in colorectal cancer.
Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Jan 2000
Kondo Yutaka, Issa Jean-Pierre J
Abstract excerpt
Epigenetic silencing is now recognized as a 'third pathway' in Knudson's model of tumor-suppressor gene inactivation in cancer and can affect gene function without genetic changes. DNA methylation within gene promoters and alterations in histone modifications appear to be primary mediators of epigenetic inheritance in cancer cells. For selected genes, epigenetic changes are tightly related to neoplastic...
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