Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3642-2
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Provides an outline of the epigenetic mechanisms involved in cancer progression and the generation of metastasis. This book describes the tumor suppressor genes undergoing transcriptional silencing by CpG island promoter hypermethylation in the different tumor types of the human anatomy and their association with tumoral behaviour
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, DNA, Promoter, genes, molecular mechanisms, regulation, transcription