Evidence for a Functional Link between Chromosomal Breakpoints and Aberrant DNA Methylation in Cancer

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Sven Bilke et al. Front Oncol. 2014.

. 2014 Mar 11:4:46.

doi: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00046. eCollection 2014.

¹ Cancer Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD , USA.

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Keywords: breast cancer; clonal evolution; copy number aberrations; epigenetics; mechanism.

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Major chromosomal breakpoint intervals in breast cancer co-localize with differentially methylated regions.
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