[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of DNA methylation covariation patterns in carcinogenesis

AE Teschendorff, X Liu, H Caren… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Recently it has been observed that cancer tissue is characterised by an increased variability
in DNA methylation patterns. However, how the correlative patterns in genome-wide DNA …

Identification of driver and passenger DNA methylation in cancer by epigenomic analysis

S Kalari, GP Pfeifer - Advances in genetics, 2010 - Elsevier
Human cancer genomes are characterized by widespread aberrations in DNA methylation
patterns including DNA hypomethylation of mostly repetitive sequences and …

[HTML][HTML] Corruption of the intra-gene DNA methylation architecture is a hallmark of cancer

TE Bartlett, A Zaikin, SC Olhede, J West… - Plos one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Epigenetic processes-including DNA methylation-are increasingly seen as having a
fundamental role in chronic diseases like cancer. It is well known that methylation levels at …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-independent and tissue-specific patterns of DNA methylation alteration in cancer

Y Chen, CE Breeze, S Zhen, S Beck… - Epigenetics & …, 2016 - Springer
Background There is growing evidence that DNA methylation alterations contribute to
carcinogenesis. While cancer tissue exhibits widespread DNA methylation changes, the …

Genome-wide distribution of DNA methylation and DNA demethylation and related chromatin regulators in cancer

Y Jiang, S Liu, X Chen, Y Cao, Y Tao - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
DNA methylation plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression, as it is the first
epigenetic modification to take place on a given DNA strand. Several factors may directly or …

[HTML][HTML] Hidden among the crowd: differential DNA methylation-expression correlations in cancer occur at important oncogenic pathways

A Mosquera Orgueira - Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is a frequent epigenetic mechanism that participates in transcriptional
repression. Variations in DNA methylation with respect to gene expression are constant …

Differential variability improves the identification of cancer risk markers in DNA methylation studies profiling precursor cancer lesions

AE Teschendorff, M Widschwendter - Bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The standard paradigm in omic disciplines has been to identify biologically
relevant biomarkers using statistics that reflect differences in mean levels of a molecular …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics and prognostic potential of DNA methylation changes at stem cell gene loci in women's cancer

J Zhuang, A Jones, SH Lee, E Ng, H Fiegl… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Aberrant DNA methylation is an important cancer hallmark, yet the dynamics of DNA
methylation changes in human carcinogenesis remain largely unexplored. Moreover, the …

Comparative DNA methylation analysis to decipher common and cell type-specific patterns among multiple cell types

X Yang, X Shao, L Gao, S Zhang - Briefings in functional …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation has been proved to play important roles in cell development and complex
diseases through comparative studies of DNA methylation profiles across different tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis of frequent DNA co-methylation patterns reveals consistent epigenetic landscape changes in multiple cancers

J Zhang, K Huang - Bmc Genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is the major form of epigenetic modifications through which
the cell regulates the gene expression and silencing. There have been extensive studies on …