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ArticleCancers2011

Apoptosis and DNA methylation.

Huan X Meng, James A Hackett, Colm Nestor, Donncha S Dunican, Monika Madej, James P Reddington, Sari Pennings, David J Harrison, Richard R Meehan

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Article in Cancers, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
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  3. Hypoxia Alters Epigenetic andFrontiers in oncology · 2020
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  8. DNA methylation, its mediators and genome integrity.International journal of biological sciences · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Huan X MengMRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. richard.meehan@hgu.mrc.ac.uk.
James A Hackett
Colm Nestor
Donncha S Dunican
Monika Madej
James P Reddington
Sari Pennings
David J Harrison
Richard R Meehan

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E023355/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic mechanisms assist in maintaining gene expression patterns and cellular properties in developing and adult tissues. The molecular pathology of disease states frequently includes perturbation of DNA and histone methylation patterns, which can activate apoptotic pathways associated with maintenance of genome integrity. This perspective focuses on the pathways linking DNA methyltransferases and methyl-CpG binding proteins to apoptosis, and includes new bioinformatic analyses to characterize the evolutionary origin of two G/T mismatch-specific thymine DNA glycosylases, MBD4 and TDG.

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PMID24212783
PMCPMC3757391

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