Regulation of tumour related genes by dynamic epigenetic alteration at enhancer regions in gastric epithelial cells infected by Epstein-Barr virus

Abstract Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with tumours such as Burkitt lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and gastric cancer. We previously showed that EBV(+) gastric cancer presents an extremely high-methylation epigenotype and this aberrant DNA methylation causes silencing of mult...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Okabe, Sayaka Funata, Keisuke Matsusaka, Hiroe Namba, Masaki Fukuyo, Bahityar Rahmutulla, Motohiko Oshima, Atsushi Iwama, Masashi Fukayama, Atsushi Kaneda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08370-7