DNA methylation plays an important role in cancer and is associated with gene silencing of tumour suppressor genes.The methylation of CpG sites is established b
Genomic amplification of oncogenes has been linked to increased expression associated with malignancy.Recent evidence suggests that increased copy numbers of re
Occurrence of multiple independent cancers in a tissue of an individual is known as field cancerization.Traditionally, accumulation of mutations in the tissue w
The scope of the "dark genome" became apparent in 2001, when the human genome was first published.Scientists expected to find as many as 100,000 genes packed in