Cancer epigenomics: beyond genomics

J Sandoval, M Esteller - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2012 - Elsevier
For many years cancer research has focused on genetic defects, but during the last decade
epigenetic deregulation has been increasingly recognized as a hallmark of cancer. The …

Precursor lesions for sporadic pancreatic cancer: PanIN, IPMN, and MCN

M Distler, D Aust, J Weitz, C Pilarsky… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer is still a dismal disease. The high mortality rate is mainly caused by the
lack of highly sensitive and specific diagnostic tools, and most of the patients are diagnosed …

Genome-wide signatures of differential DNA methylation in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

J Nordlund, CL Bäcklin, P Wahlberg, S Busche… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Although aberrant DNA methylation has been observed previously in acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the patterns of differential methylation have not been …

Aggressive PDACs show hypomethylation of repetitive elements and the execution of an intrinsic IFN program linked to a ductal cell of origin

E Espinet, Z Gu, CD Imbusch, NA Giese, M Büscher… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by extensive desmoplasia,
which challenges the molecular analyses of bulk tumor samples. Here we FACS-purified …

Genome‐wide DNA methylation patterns in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveal epigenetic deregulation of SLIT‐ROBO, ITGA2 and MET signaling

K Nones, N Waddell, S Song, AM Patch… - … journal of cancer, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation in tumorigenesis is
increasingly being appreciated. To define the genome‐wide pattern of DNA methylation in …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in pancreatic cancer biomarkers

S Hasan, R Jacob, U Manne, R Paluri - Oncology reviews, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biomarkers play an essential role in the management of patients with invasive cancers.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDC) associated with poor prognosis due to advanced …

A study of the influence of sex on genome wide methylation

J Liu, M Morgan, K Hutchison, VD Calhoun - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Sex differences in methylation status have been observed in specific gene-disease studies
and healthy methylation variation studies, but little work has been done to study the impact …

Surgical and molecular pathology of pancreatic neoplasms

WM Hackeng, RH Hruban, GJA Offerhaus… - Diagnostic …, 2016 - Springer
Background Histologic characteristics have proven to be very useful for classifying different
types of tumors of the pancreas. As a result, the major tumor types in the pancreas have long …

Integrated single-cell multiomics analysis reveals novel candidate markers for prognosis in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

X Fan, P Lu, H Wang, S Bian, X Wu, Y Zhang, Y Liu… - Cell Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The epigenomic abnormality of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has rarely been
investigated due to its strong heterogeneity. Here, we used single-cell multiomics …

Genome-wide analysis of promoter methylation associated with gene expression profile in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

A Vincent, N Omura, SM Hong, A Jaffe, J Eshleman… - Clinical cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Purpose: The goal of this study was to comprehensively identify CpG island methylation
alterations between pancreatic cancers and normal pancreata and their associated gene …