Juan Ramón Tejedor, Alfonso Peñarroya, Javier Gancedo-Verdejo, Pablo Santamarina-Ojeda, Raúl F Pérez, Sara López-Tamargo, Ana Díez-Borge, Juan J Alba-Linares, Nerea González-Del-Rey, Rocío G Urdinguio, Cristina Mangas, Annalisa Roberti, Virginia López, Teresa Morales-Ruiz, Rafael R Ariza, Teresa Roldán-Arjona, Mónica Meijón, Luis Valledor, María Jesús Cañal, Daniel Fernández-Martínez, María Fernández-Hevia, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca, Luis J García-Flórez, Agustín F Fernández, Mario F Fraga
BACKGROUND: Promoter hypermethylation of tumour suppressor genes is frequently observed during the malignant transformation of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, whether this epigenetic mechanism is functional in cancer or is a mere consequence of the carcinogenic process remains to be elucidated. RESULTS: In this work, we performed an integrative multi-omic approach to identify gene candidates with strong correlations between DNA methylation and gene expression in human CRC samples and a set of 8 colon cancer cell lines...
August 24, 2023: Clinical Epigenetics