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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: hari easwaran
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-50511 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Easwaran Hariharan P HP Van Neste Leander L Cope Leslie L Sen Subhojit S Mohammad Helai P HP Pageau Gayle J GJ Lawrence Jeanne B JB Herman James G JG Schuebel Kornel E KE Baylin Stephen B SB
Cancer research 20100824 20
Aberrant promoter DNA-hypermethylation and repressive chromatin constitutes a frequent mechanism of gene inactivation in cancer. There is great interest in dissecting the mechanisms underlying this abnormal silencing. Studies have shown changes in the nuclear organization of chromatin in tumor cells as well as the association of aberrant methylation with long-range silencing of neighboring genes. Furthermore, certain tumors show a high incidence of promoter methylation termed as the CpG island m ...[more]