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Epigenetic changes in solid and hematopoietic tumors.
Seminars in oncology - 1 Oct 2005
Toyota Minoru, Issa Jean-Pierre J
Abstract excerpt
There are three connected molecular mechanisms of epigenetic cellular memory in mammalian cells: DNA methylation, histone modifications, and RNA interference. The first two have now been firmly linked to neoplastic transformation. Hypermethylation of CpG-rich promoters triggers local histone code modifications resulting in a cellular camouflage mechanism that sequesters gene promoters away from transcription...
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