The epigenetic breakdown of cancer cells: from DNA methylation to histone modifications.

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Summary

A better understanding of the machinery that connects DNA methylation, chromatin and transcriptional activity, in which histone modifications stand in a key position, has been achieved and contributed to understanding how epigenetic deregulation occurs in cancer but also to developing novel therapies that can reverse epigenetic defects in cancer cells.

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review
Published
2005-09-01
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Keywords

Epigenetics, Cancer epigenetics, DNA methylation, Biology, Histone

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