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ABSTRACT:
This experiment was reloaded in November 2010 after additional curation.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: rafael irizarry
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13471 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature genetics 20090118 2
For the past 25 years, it has been known that alterations in DNA methylation (DNAm) occur in cancer, including hypomethylation of oncogenes and hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes. However, most studies of cancer methylation have assumed that functionally important DNAm will occur in promoters, and that most DNAm changes in cancer occur in CpG islands. Here we show that most methylation alterations in colon cancer occur not in promoters, and also not in CpG islands, but in sequences up to ...[more]