miRNA: a promising therapeutic target in cancer

A Menon, N Abd-Aziz, K Khalid, CL Poh… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
microRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that regulate several genes post-transcriptionally by
complementarity pairing. Since discovery, they have been reported to be involved in a …

Mutual regulation of microRNAs and DNA methylation in human cancers

S Wang, W Wu, FX Claret - Epigenetics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT microRNAs (miRNAs) and DNA methylation are the 2 epigenetic modifications
that have emerged in recent years as the most critical players in the regulation of gene …

Epigenetics in ovarian cancer

Y Natanzon, EL Goode, JM Cunningham - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer is a disease with a poor prognosis and little progress has been made to
improve treatment. It is now recognized that there are several histotypes of ovarian cancer …

Epigenetic biomarkers in the management of ovarian cancer: current prospectives

A Singh, S Gupta, M Sachan - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer (OC) causes significant morbidity and mortality as neither detection nor
screening of OC is currently feasible at an early stage. Difficulty to promptly diagnose OC in …

The novel, small-molecule DNA methylation inhibitor SGI-110 as an ovarian cancer chemosensitizer

F Fang, J Munck, J Tang, P Taverna, Y Wang… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate SGI-110 as a “chemosensitizer” in ovarian cancer and to assess its
effects on tumor suppressor genes (TSG) and chemoresponsiveness-associated genes …

Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling reveals methylation markers associated with 3q gain for detection of cervical precancer and cancer

W Verlaat, PJF Snijders, PW Novianti, SM Wilting… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Epigenetic host cell changes involved in cervical cancer development following a
persistent high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection, provide promising markers for …

Ovarian cancer stem cells: are they real and why are they important?

MM Shah, CN Landen - Gynecologic oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
The cancer stem cell hypothesis has been put forward as a paradigm to describe varying
levels of aggressiveness in heterogeneous tumors. Specifically, many subpopulations have …

Cracking the code of human diseases using next‐generation sequencing: Applications, challenges, and perspectives

V Precone, V Del Monaco, MV Esposito… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have greatly impacted on every field of
molecular research mainly because they reduce costs and increase throughput of DNA …

Epigenetic silencing of ZIC4 unveils a potential tumor suppressor role in pediatric choroid plexus carcinoma

D Hesham, A Mosaab, N Amer, N Al-Shehaby… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Zic family member ZIC4 is a transcription factor that has been shown to be silenced in
several cancers. However, understanding the regulation and function of ZIC4 in pediatric …

Next‐generation technologies and data analytical approaches for epigenomics

K Mensaert, S Denil, G Trooskens… - Environmental and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetics refers to the collection of heritable features that modulate the genome–
environment interaction without being encoded in the actual DNA sequence. While being …