Epigenetic silencing of downstream genes mediated by tandem orientation in lung cancer

Abstract Epigenetic deregulation is of importance in tumorigenesis. In particular CpG islands (CGI), are frequently hypermethylated. Here, genome-wide DNA-methylation profiles of 480,000 CpGs in lung cancer cells were generated. It was observed that intra- and intergenic CGI exhibited higher methyla...

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Main Authors: Steffen Kiehl, Tobias Zimmermann, Rajkumar Savai, Soni S. Pullamsetti, Werner Seeger, Marek Bartkuhn, Reinhard H. Dammann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04248-w