Cancer epigenetics
By: edited by Trygve Tollefsbol.
Contributors: Tollefsbol, Trygve O.
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420045796
Subjects: Cancer -- Genetic aspects; Epigenesis; DNA -- Methylation; Post-translational modification; Neoplasms -- genetics; DNA Methylation; Epigenesis, Genetic; Histones -- metabolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of epigenetics in cancer / Trygve O. Tollefsbol; title: DNA hypomethylation in cancer / Peter L. Molloy; title: DNA hypermethylation in oncogenesis / J. Tyson DeAngelis ... [et al.]; title: Imprinting alterations in tumorigenesis / Jeremiah Bernier-Latmani and Phillip Shaw; title: Proteins that modulate DNA methylation aberrations in cancer / Sabrina L. Walthall ... [et al.]; title: The role of DNA methylation in cancer progression / Sang-Woon Choi and Simonetta Friso; title: Alterations in histone acetylation in tumorigenesis / Sabita N. Saldanha and Trygve O. Tollefsbol; title: Histone methylation and the initiation of cancer / Shi Huang; title: The role of sirtuins in aging and tumorigenesis / Xiaohong Zhang ... [et al.]; title: Proteins that alter histone modifications in cancer / Ada Ao and Jianrong Lu; title: Dietary and environmental influences on histone modifications in cancer / Sabita N. Saldanha ... [et al.]; title: Noncoding RNAs in cancer / Maciej Szymanski and Jan Barciszewski; title: Cancer-linked DNA hyper- and hypomethylation: chromosome positional effects / Melanie Ehrlich; title: Chromatin remodeling and cancer / Sari Pennings and Richard R. Meehan; title: Poly-ADP-ribosylation in cancer / Rajeshwar N. Sharan; title: Polycomb group proteins in tumorigenesis / Hanneke E.C. Niessen and Jan Willem Voncken; title: Cancer and aging: the epigenetic connection / Craig A. Cooney; title: DNA methylation in tumor diagnosis / Kavitha Ramachandran, Edna Gordian, and Rakesh Singal; title: DNA methylation profiles as prognostic markers for cancer / Sam Thiagalingam and Panagiotis Papageorgis; title: Diagnosing cancer using histone modification analysis / Mukesh Verma and Deepak Kumar; title: Histone modifications in cancer biology and prognosis / Matthew A. McBrian, David B. Seligson, and Siavash K. Kurdistani; title: Histone deacetylase inhibitors in cancer therapy / Aaron M. Sargeant ... [et al.]; title: Methylation changes in neoplasia: diagnostic and therapeutic implications / Eleftheria Hatzimichael, Justin Stebbing, and Tim Crook; title: Clinical trials and approved drugs for epigenetic cancer therapy / Debby M.E.I. Hellebrekers and Manon van Engeland; title: Future directions in epigenetic cancer research / Jacob Peedicayil.