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The epigenetics of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in cancer.
Nature medicine - 1 Nov 2013
Tam Wai Leong, Weinberg Robert A
Abstract excerpt
During the course of malignant cancer progression, neoplastic cells undergo dynamic and reversible transitions between multiple phenotypic states, the extremes of which are defined by the expression of epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes. This plasticity is enabled by underlying shifts in epigenetic regulation. A small cohort of pleiotropically acting transcription factors is widely recognized to effect these...
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