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Epigenetics in cancer prevention : early detection and risk assessment / edited by Mukesh Verma, Barbara K. Dunn, and Asad Umar.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention: Early Detection and Risk Assessment Workshop (2001 : Bethesda, Md.)
- Series:
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 983.
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Genetic aspects--Congresses.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Genetic aspects.
- Cancer--Prevention--Congresses.
- Cancer--Prevention.
- Cancer--Risk factors--Congresses.
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic--genetics.
- Cancer--Risk factors.
- Neoplasms--genetics.
- Neoplasms--prevention & control.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic--genetics.
- Neoplasms--genetics.
- Neoplasms--prevention & control.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Academy of Sciences, [2003]
- Contents:
- Preface: Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention, with Emphasis on Early Detection and Risk Assessment / Peter Greenwald, Mukesh Verma ix
- Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention: Early Detection and Risk Assessment: Introduction / Barbara K. Dunn, Mukesh Verma, Asad Umar 1
- Part I. The Basic Mechanism of Epigenetics-Mediated Regulation
- Chromatin as a Tool for the Study of Genome Function in Cancer / Fyodor D. Urnov 5
- Unanswered Questions about the Role of Promoter Methylation in Carcinogenesis / Timothy H. Bestor 22
- Hypomethylation: One Side of a Larger Picture / Barbara K. Dunn 28
- Genetic and Epigenetic Mosaicism in Cancer Precursor Tissues / Benjamin Tycko 43
- Epigenetic Control during Lymphoid Development and Immune Responses: Aberrant Regulation, Viruses, and Cancer / Kathrin Muegge, Howard Young, Francis Ruscetti, Judy Mikovits 55
- Epigenetics: The Role of Methylation in the Mechanism of Action of Tumor Suppressor Genes / Pawan K. Jain 71
- Histone Deacetylases: Unique Players in Shaping the Epigenetic Histone Code / Sam Thiagalingam, Kuang-Hung Cheng, Hyunjoo J. Lee, Nora Mineva, Arunthathi Thiagalingam, Jose F. Ponte 84
- Genome-Wide Analysis of Epigenetics in Cancer / Maxwell P. Lee 101
- Part II. Technical Approaches for Analysis
- The Development of CpG Island Methylation Biomarkers Using Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning / Dominic J. Smiraglia, Christoph Plass 110
- Sensitive Detection of DNA Methylation / Susan E. Cottrell, Peter W. Laird 120
- Methylation-Sensitive Representational Difference Analysis and Its Application to Cancer Research / Atsushi Kaneda, Daiya Takai, Michio Kaminishi, Eriko Okochi, Toshikazu Ushijima 131
- Cancer Biomarker Validation: Standards and Process: Roles for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) / Peter E. Barker 142
- Part III. Exogenous Factors Affecting Epigenetic Regulation
- Epigenetics and the Environment / Jessica E. Sutherland, Max Costa 151
- Environmental Exposure, DNA Methylation, and Gene Regulation: Lessons from Diethylstilbesterol-Induced Cancers / Shuanfang Li, Stephen D. Hursting, Barbara J. Davis, John A. McLachlan, J. Carl Barrett 161
- Viral Genes and Methylation / Mukesh Verma 170
- Epidemiologic Considerations to Assess Altered DNA Methylation from Environmental Exposures in Cancer / Lee E. Moore, Wen-Yi Huang, Joyce Chung, Richard B. Hayes 181
- Diet and DNA Methylation Interactions in Cancer Prevention / Sharon A. Ross 197
- Part IV. Epigenetics, Cancer, and Cancer Prevention
- Promoter Hypermethylation as an Epigenetic Component in Type I and Type II Endometrial Cancers / John I. Risinger, G. Larry Maxwell, Andrew Berchuck, J. Carl Barrett 208
- Epigenetics in Carcinogenesis and Cancer Prevention / Peter A. Jones 213
- Histone Acetylation and Gastrointestinal Carcinogenesis / Wataru Yasui, Naohide Oue, Shigehiro Ono, Yoshitsugu Mitani, Reiko Ito, Hirofumi Nakayama 220
- Epigenetics in High-Grade Astrocytomas: Opportunities for Prevention and Detection of Brain Tumors / Waldemar Debinski, Denise Gibo, Akiva Mintz 232
- Aberrant DNA Methylation in Ovarian Cancer: Is There an Epigenetic Predisposition to Drug Response? / Susan H. Wei, Robert Brown, Tim H.-M. Huang 243
- DNA Methylation, a Biomarker for Colorectal Cancer: Implications for Screening and Pathological Utility / Adrian M. Jubb, Phil Quirke, Adam J. Oates 251
- 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, Robert C. Bast, Jr 268
- Epigenetic Changes: Potential Therapeutic Targets / Thea Kalebic 278
- DNA Methylation as a Cancer-Specific Biomarker: From Molecules to Populations / Arti Patel, John D. Groopman, Asad Umar 286
- 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, Asad Umar 298.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1573314307
- 1573314315
- OCLC:
- 51511656
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