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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Yujin Hoshida
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-20596 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120625 28
The distinct phenotypic and prognostic subclasses of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are difficult to reproduce in animal experiments. Here we have used in vivo gene targeting to insert an enhancer-promoter element at an imprinted chromosome 12 locus in mice, thereby converting ∼1 in 20,000 normal hepatocytes into a focus of HCC with a single genetic modification. A 300-kb chromosomal domain containing multiple mRNAs, snoRNAs, and microRNAs was activated surrounding the integration site. An ...[more]