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Epigenetics and Cancer, Part A

  • Zdenko Herceg
    • Toshikazu Ushijima

    Audience
    Geneticists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists

    Included in series
    Advances in Genetics

Hardbound, 394 Pages

Published: October 2010

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-380866-0

Contents

    1. Introduction, objectives of the book

      2. Zdenko Herceg and Toshikazu Ushijima

      Section I. Basic epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of critical cellular processes

    2. DNA methylation and cancer

      3. Manel Esteller

    3. Histone modifications and cancer

      4. Zdenko Herceg

    4. Epigenetics and miRNAs in human cancer

      5. George A Calin

    5. Interplay between different epigenetic mechanisms

      6. Rabih Murr

       

      Section II. Epigenetic events underlying biological phenomena

    6. Genomic imprinting and cancer

      7. Eamonn Maher

    7. Epigenetic code and stem cells

      8. Yasuhiro Yamada

    8. Inheritance of epigenetic aberrations (constitutional epimutations) in cancer susceptibility

      9. Megan Hitchins

      Section III. Cancer epigenome

    9. Cancer epigenome

      10. Stephan Beck

    10. Identification of driver methylation by epigenomic analysis

      11. Gerd Pfeifer

    11. Epigenetic driver of genetic alterations

      12. Minoru Toyota

      Section VI. Epigenetic therapy and epigenetic drugs

    12. DNA demethylating agents and epigenetic therapy of cancer

      13. Mani Samson and Zdenko Herceg

    13. Histone modification therapy of cancer

    Severio Minucci

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