Cancer is thought to be largely caused by genetic mutations that alter nucleotide sequences of DNA, yet epigenetic fac- tors are increasingly recognized to also play causative roles in cancer development. The idea of ...
supported by the Special Foundation Work Program(Grant No. 2009FY120100);the National Key Technology Research and Development Program,Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No. 2008BA164B02)
1 Science in the large-scale sequencing era Ten years ago, the first draft sequence assembly of the human genome was completed, bringing biomedical research one-step closer toward the goal of revolutionizing diagnosis...