Cancer Systems Biology and Genomics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 4340
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cancer genetics; biomarkers; epigenetic; methylome; tumor biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that plays an important role in regulating gene expression and, therefore, a broad range of biological processes and diseases. DNA methylation is tissue-specific, dynamic, sequence-context-dependent, and trans-generationally heritable, and these complex patterns of methylation highlight the significance of profiling DNA methylation to answer biological questions. Methylome (plural methylomes) (genetics) is the set of nucleic acid methylation modifications in an organism's genome or in a particular cell. The methylome refers to the total distribution of 5mC throughout the genome. With the advent of the completion of the Human Roadmap Epigenome Project, the methylomes of a large number of human tissues and cell types have been documented and made publicly available through interactive web browsers.
In this Special Issue, we are interested in recent advances in major methylation assays, along with comparisons and biological examples, to provide an overview of DNA methylation profiling techniques and research highlights on methylome in several malignancies.
Dr. Fatemeh Khatami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer genetics
- biomarkers
- epigenetic
- methylome
- tumor biology