Etiology of super-enhancer reprogramming and activation in cancer

Abstract Super-enhancers are large, densely concentrated swaths of enhancers that regulate genes critical for cell identity. Tumorigenesis is accompanied by changes in the super-enhancer landscape. These aberrant super-enhancers commonly form to activate proto-oncogenes, or other genes upon which ca...

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Main Authors: Royce W. Zhou, Ramon E. Parsons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:Epigenetics & Chromatin
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13072-023-00502-w