The second hit of DNA methylation.

Mol Cell Oncol

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, USA; ADIENNE, Lugano, Switzerland.

Published: May 2016

Gene expression programs are tightly regulated by heritable "epigenetic" information, which is stored as chemical modifications of histones and DNA. With the recent development of sequencing-based epigenome mapping technologies and cancer cellular reprogramming, the tools are now in hand to analyze the epigenetic contribution to human cancer.

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