DNA Methylation: Development, Genetic Disease and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Doerfler, Walter (Editor), Böhm, Petra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 310
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.

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Table of Contents:

• The Regulation of Chromatin and DNA-Methylation Patterns in Blood Cell Development
• Methylation Dynamics in the Early Mammalian Embryo: Implications of Genome Reprogramming Defects for Development
• Epigenetic Regulation in Drosophila
• Epimutations in Human Disease
• Epigenotypes of Latent Herpesvirus Genomes
• Epigenetics of Complex Diseases: From General Theory to Laboratory Experiments
• MSL Proteins and the Regulation of Gene Expression
• DNA Methylation Profiles of Female Steroid Hormone-Driven Human Malignancies
• Genome-wide Analysis of DNA Methylation Changes in Human Malignancies
• Decreased Fidelity in Replicating DNA Methylation Patterns in Cancer Cells Leads to Dense Methylation of a CpG Island
• Methylation of Endogenous Human Retroelements in Health and Disease
• Cancer-Linked DNA Hypomethylation and Its Relationship to Hypermethylation.