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Epigenetics in cancer prevention : early detection and risk assessment

Title
Epigenetics in cancer prevention : early detection and risk assessment / edited by Mukesh Verma, Barbara K. Dunn, and Asad Umar.
Author
Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention: Early Detection and Risk Assessment Workshop (2001 : Bethesda, Md.)
Publication
New York : New York Academy of Sciences, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Verma, Mukesh.
  • Dunn, Barbara K.
  • Umar, Asad.
  • National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Division of Cancer Prevention.
Description
x, 330 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 983
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 983.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Congress.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Preface: Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention, with Emphasis on Early Detection and Risk Assessment / Peter Greenwald and Mukesh Verma -- Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention: Early Detection and Risk Assessment: Introduction / Barbara K. Dunn, Mukesh Verma and Asad Umar -- Chromatin as a Tool for the Study of Genome Function in Cancer / Fyodor D. Urnov -- Unanswered Questions about the Role of Promoter Methylation in Carcinogenesis / Timothy H. Bestor -- Hypomethylation: One Side of a Large Picture / Barbara K. Dunn -- Genetic and Epigenetic Mosaicism in Cancer Precursor Tissues / Benjamin Tycko -- Epigenetic Control during Lymphoid Development and Immune Responses: Aberrant Regulation, Viruses, and Cancer / Kathrin Muegge, Howard Young, Francis Ruscetti and Judy Mikovits -- Epigenetics: The Role of Methylation in the Mechanism of Action of Tumor Suppressor Genes / Pawan K. Jain --
  • Histone Deacetylases: Unique Players in Shaping the Epigenetic Histone Code / Sam Thiagalingam, Kuang-Hung Cheng, Hyunjoo J. Lee, Nora Mineva, Arunthathi Thiagalingam and Jose F. Ponte -- Genome-Wide Analysis of Epigenetics in Cancer / Maxwell P. Lee -- The Development of CpG Island Methylation Biomarkers Using Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning / Dominic J. Smiraglia and Christoph Plass -- Sensitive Detection of DNA Methylation / Susan E. Cottrell and Peter W. Laird -- Methylation-Sensitive Representational Difference Analysis and Its Application to Cancer Research / Atsushi Kaneda, Daiya Takai, Michio Kaminishi, Eriko Okochi and Toshikazu Ushijima -- Cancer Biomarker Validation: Standards and Process: Roles for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) / Peter E. Barker -- Epigenetics and the Environment / Jessica E. Sutherland and Max Costa --
  • Environmental Exposure, DNA Methylation, and Gene Regulation: Lessons from Diethylstilbesterol-Induced Cancers / Shuanfang Li, Stephen D. Hursting, Barbara J. Davis, John A. McLachlan and J. Carl Barrett -- Viral Genes and Methylation / Mukesh Verma -- Epidemiologic Considerations to Assess Altered DNA Methylation from Environmental Exposures in Cancer / Lee E. Moore, Wen-Yi Huang, Joyce Chung and Richard B. Hayes -- Diet and DNA Methylation Interactions in Cancer Prevention / Sharon A. Ross -- Promoter Hypermethylation as an Epigenetic Component in Type I and Type II Endometrial Cancers / John I. Risinger, G. Larry Maxwell, Andrew Berchuck and J. Carl Barrett -- Epigenetics in Carcinogenesis and Cancer Prevention / Peter A. Jones -- Histone Acetylation and Gastrointestinal Carcinogenesis / Wataru Yasui, Naohide Oue, Shigebiro Ono, Yoshitsugu Mitani, Reiko Ito and Hirofumi Nakayama --
  • Epigenetics in High-Grade Astrocytomas: Opportunities for Prevention and Detection of Brain Tumors / Waldemar Debinski, Denise Gibo and Akiva Mintz -- Aberrant DNA Methylation in Ovarian Cancer: Is There an Epigenetic Predisposition to Drug Response? / Susan H. Wei, Robert Brown and Tim H.-M. Huang -- DNA Methylation, a Biomarker for Colorectal Cancer: Implications for Screening and Pathological Utility / Adrian M. Jubb, Phil Quirke and Adam J. Oates -- Epigenetic Regulation of ARHI in Breast and Ovarian Cancer Cells / Yinhua Yu, Satoshi Fujii, Jiuhong Yuan, Robert Z. Luo, Lin Wang, Jiaju Bao, Mitsutaka Kadota, Mitsuo Oshimura, Sharon R. Dent, Jean-Pierre Issa and Robert C. Bast, Jr. -- Epigenetic Changes: Potential Therapeutic Targets / Thea Kalebic -- DNA Methylation as a Cancer-Specific Biomarker: From Molecules to Populations / Arti Patel, John D. Groopman and Asad Umar --
  • Early Detection and Risk Assessment: Proceedings and Recommendations from the Workshop on Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention / Mukesh Verma, Barbara K. Dunn, Sharon Ross, Pawan Jain, Wendy Wang, Richard Hayes and Asad Umar -- Definitions in Epigenetics / Edited by Mukesh Verma, Barbara K. Dunn and Asad Umar.
ISBN
  • 1573314307 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1573314315 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003000890
OCLC
  • ocm51511656
  • SCSB-4346647
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries