Comparing the DNA Hypermethylome with Gene Mutations in Human Colorectal Cancer
Schuebel KE, Chen W, Cope L, Glöckner SC, Suzuki H, Yi JM, Chan TA, Van Neste L, Van Criekinge W, van den Bosch S, van Engeland M, Ting AH, Jair K, Yu W, Toyota M, Imai K, Ahuja N, Herman JG, Baylin SB. Comparing the DNA Hypermethylome with Gene Mutations in Human Colorectal Cancer. PLOS Genetics 2007, 3: e157. PMID: 17892325, PMCID: PMC1988850, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030157.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscriptome-wide approachCpG island DNA hypermethylationHuman colorectal cancer samplesHuman cancer genomesTumor-specific hypermethylationEpigenetic screensTranscriptional silencingIndividual genesCancer genomesEpigenetic changesDNA hypermethylationGene mutationsGenesHypermethylationCell linesIndividual tumorsHuman colorectal cancerColorectal cancer samplesCancer samplesMutationsColorectal cancerCancer biomarkersGenomeSilencingPromoter