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Epigenetics in renal cell cancer: mechanisms and clinical applications.
Nature reviews. Urology - 1 Jul 2018
Joosten Sophie C, Smits Kim M, Aarts Maureen J, Melotte Veerle, Koch Alexander, Tjan-Heijnen Vivianne C, van Engeland Manon
Abstract excerpt
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is characterized by an infrequent number of somatic mutations. By contrast, epigenetic aberrations are commonly found in RCC, indicating that epigenetic reprogramming is an important event in RCC development. Epigenetic alterations comprise several different aberrations, such as changes in histone modifications, DNA methylation, and microRNA levels, and occur in the most important...
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