Lung cancer epigenetics: from knowledge to applications

M Duruisseaux, M Esteller - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Advances in our
understanding of the genomics of lung cancer have led to substantial progress in the …

The immune landscape of cancer

V Thorsson, DL Gibbs, SD Brown, D Wolf, DS Bortone… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
We performed an extensive immunogenomic analysis of more than 10,000 tumors
comprising 33 diverse cancer types by utilizing data compiled by TCGA. Across cancer …

MiR-29a: a potential therapeutic target and promising biomarker in tumors

J Wang, Q Zhang, D Wang, W Yan, H Sha… - Bioscience …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
MiRNAs, small non-coding RNA molecules, were recognized to be associated with the
incidence and development of diverse neoplasms. MiRNAs were small non-coding RNAs …

Genome-wide analysis reveals that exon methylation facilitates its selective usage in the human transcriptome

S Li, J Zhang, S Huang, X He - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation, especially in promoter regions, is a well-characterized epigenetic marker
related to gene expression regulation in eukaryotes. However, the role of intragenic DNA …

Systematical analysis of lncRNA–mRNA competing endogenous RNA network in breast cancer subtypes

S Zhou, L Wang, Q Yang, H Liu, Q Meng… - Breast cancer research …, 2018 - Springer
Background Breast cancer is one of the most common solid tumors in women involving
multiple subtypes. However, the mechanism for subtypes of breast cancer is still complicated …

Alcohol-induced epigenetic changes in cancer

RG Dumitrescu - Cancer Epigenetics for Precision Medicine: Methods …, 2018 - Springer
Chronic, heavy alcohol consumption is associated with serious negative health effects,
including the development of several cancer types. One of the pathways affected by alcohol …

Inflammatory genes are novel prognostic biomarkers for colorectal cancer

H Jiang, L Dong, F Gong, Y Gu… - International …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Inflammatory genes serve a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammation‑associated
tumors. However, as recent studies have mainly focused on the effects of single …

A pan‐cancer atlas of cancer hallmark‐associated candidate driver lnc RNA s

Y Deng, S Luo, X Zhang, C Zou, H Yuan… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Substantial cancer genome sequencing efforts have discovered many important driver
genes contributing to tumorigenesis. However, very little is known about the genetic …

Capturing functional long non-coding RNAs through integrating large-scale causal relations from gene perturbation experiments

J Xu, A Shi, Z Long, L Xu, G Liao, C Deng, M Yan… - …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Characterizing functions of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) remains a major challenge,
mostly due to the lack of lncRNA-involved regulatory relationships. A wide array of genome …

Combinatorial epigenetic regulation of non-coding RNAs has profound effects on oncogenic pathways in breast cancer subtypes

J Xu, ZS Wang, S Li, J Chen, J Zhang… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although systematic genomic studies have identified a broad spectrum of non-coding RNAs
(ncRNAs) that are involved in breast cancer, our understanding of the epigenetic …