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SUBMITTER: Fanelli M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3003125 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fanelli Mirco M Amatori Stefano S Barozzi Iros I Soncini Matias M Dal Zuffo Roberto R Bucci Gabriele G Capra Maria M Quarto Micaela M Dellino Gaetano Ivan GI Mercurio Ciro C Alcalay Myriam M Viale Giuseppe G Pelicci Pier Giuseppe PG Minucci Saverio S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101124 50
Epigenetic alterations in the pattern of DNA and histone modifications play a crucial role in cancer development. Analysis of patient samples, however, is hampered by technical limitations in the study of chromatin structure from pathology archives that usually consist of heavily fixed, paraffin-embedded material. Here, we present a methodology [pathology tissue-ChIP (PAT-ChIP)] to extract and immunoprecipitate chromatin from paraffin-embedded patient samples up to several years old. In a pairwi ...[more]