Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(2):84-86; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj042
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (8)
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Garber, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Garber, K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© Oxford University Press 2006.

NEWS

Momentum Building for Human Epigenome Project

Ken Garber

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Epigenetics does not get the recognition it deserves, say its proponents. "Our struggle in this field has been to convince the community that epigenetics really has a major role in human disease," said Peter Jones, D.Sc., director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Jones and 39 other scientists are now trying to convince funding agencies that epigenetics warrants a "Human Epigenome Project." This long-term effort will require substantial but as yet unspecified funds in an era of budget austerity for the National Institutes of Health.


Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
View larger version (139K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Peter Jones

 
There is a strong case for such a project. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that occur without changes in DNA sequence—a vast and largely unexplored biological domain. Rudolph Jaenisch, Ph.D., of MIT's Whitehead Institute, has defined epigenetics as "the mechanism to transmit gene expression states from one cell . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Charting a Course

Joining the Epigenomics Boom

How Important in Cancer?

Beyond Cancer


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Cancer Res.Home page
M. O. Hoque, M. S. Kim, K. L. Ostrow, J. Liu, G. B. A. Wisman, H. L. Park, M. L. Poeta, C. Jeronimo, R. Henrique, A. Lendvai, et al.
Genome-Wide Promoter Analysis Uncovers Portions of the Cancer Methylome
Cancer Res., April 15, 2008; 68(8): 2661 - 2670.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Nucleic Acids ResHome page
M. Ongenaert, L. Van Neste, T. De Meyer, G. Menschaert, S. Bekaert, and W. Van Criekinge
PubMeth: a cancer methylation database combining text-mining and expert annotation
Nucleic Acids Res., January 11, 2008; 36(suppl_1): D842 - D846.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Hum Mol GenetHome page
R. M. Brena and J. F. Costello
Genome-epigenome interactions in cancer
Hum. Mol. Genet., April 15, 2007; 16(R1): R96 - R105.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 CarcinogenesisHome page
M. Esteller
The necessity of a human epigenome project
Carcinogenesis, June 1, 2006; 27(6): 1121 - 1125.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]