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Genes methylated by DNA methyltransferase 3b are similar in mouse intestine and human colon cancer.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 May 2011
Steine Eveline J, Ehrich Mathias, Bell George W, Raj Arjun, Reddy Seshamma, van Oudenaarden Alexander, Jaenisch Rudolf, Linhart Heinz G
Abstract excerpt
Human cancer cells frequently have regions of their DNA hypermethylated, which results in transcriptional silencing of affected genes and promotion of tumor formation. However, it is still unknown whether cancer-associated aberrant DNA methylation is targeted to specific genomic regions, whether this methylation also occurs in noncancerous cells, and whether these epigenetic events are maintained in the absence...
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