Transcriptional enhancers

Unmasking risk loci: DNA methylation illuminates the biology of cancer predisposition: Analyzing DNA methylation of transcriptional enhancers reveals missed regulatory links between cancer risk loci and genes

Paradoxically, DNA sequence polymorphisms in cancer risk loci rarely correlate with the expression of cancer genes. Therefore, the molecular mechanism underlying an individual's susceptibility to cancer has remained largely unknown. However, recent …