The Role of Histone Protein Modifications and Mutations in Histone Modifiers in Pediatric B-Cell Progenitor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
While cancer has been long recognized as a disease of the genome, the importance of epigenetic mechanisms in neoplasia was acknowledged more recently. The most active epigenetic marks are DNA methylation and histone protein modifications and they are involved in basic biological phenomena in every c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-01-01
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Series: | Cancers |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/9/1/2 |