期刊
BIOESSAYS
卷 36, 期 2, 页码 184-190出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300119
关键词
cancer; common human disease; disease risk loci; DNA methylation; epigenomics; gene regulation; transcriptional enhancers
资金
- Israel Science Foundation [1162/12, 41/11]
- I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
- Rosetrees Trust
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 evaluations of the correlations between DNA methylation and gene expression levels across healthy and cancerous genomes have revealed enrichment of disease-related DNA methylation variations within disease-associated risk loci. Moreover, it appears that transcriptional enhancers embedded in cancer risk loci often contain DNA methylation sites that closely define the expression of prominent cancer genes, despite the lack of significant correlations between gene expression levels and the surrounding disease-associated polymorphic sequences. We suggest that DNA methylation variations may obscure the effect of co-residing risk sequence alleles. Analysis of enhancer methylation data may help to reveal the regulatory circuits underlying predisposition to cancers and other common diseases. Editor's suggested further reading in BioEssays DNA methylation reprogramming in cancer: Does it act by re-configuring the binding landscape of Polycomb repressive complexes?
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