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Is there a link between genome-wide hypomethylation in blood and cancer risk?
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1 Dec 2012
Brennan Kevin, Flanagan James M
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Cancer cells display widespread genetic and epigenetic abnormalities, but the contribution to disease risk, particularly in normal tissue before disease, is not yet established. Genome-wide hypomethylation occurs frequently in tumors and may facilitate chromosome instability, aberrant transcription and transposable elements reactivation. Several epidemiologic case-control studies have reported genomic...
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