Functional enhancers at the gene-poor 8q24 cancer-linked locus.

Multiple discrete regions at 8q24 were recently shown to contain alleles that predispose to many cancers including prostate, breast, and colon. These regions are far from any annotated gene and their biological activities have been unknown. Here we profiled a 5-megabase chromatin segment encompassin...

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Main Authors: Li Jia, Gilad Landan, Mark Pomerantz, Rami Jaschek, Paula Herman, David Reich, Chunli Yan, Omar Khalid, Phil Kantoff, William Oh, J Robert Manak, Benjamin P Berman, Brian E Henderson, Baruch Frenkel, Christopher A Haiman, Matthew Freedman, Amos Tanay, Gerhard A Coetzee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2717370?pdf=render