Ovarian cancer advances when genes are silenced

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 21:23 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have found evidence of epigenetics at work on a genome-wide scale in cases of ovarian cancer. One major biological signaling pathway in particular was found to contain many genes influenced by DNA methylation -- a mechanism for turning off genes -- in tumor cells.

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