Global impact of somatic structural variation on the DNA methylome of human cancers.
Yiqun ZhangLixing YangMelanie KucherlapatiAngela HadjipanayisAngeliki PantaziChristopher A BristowEunjung Alice LeeHarshad S MahadeshwarJiabin TangJianhua ZhangSahil SethSemin LeeXiaojia RenXingzhi SongHuandong SunJonathan SeidmanLovelace J LuquetteRuibin XiLynda ChinAlexei ProtopopovPeter J ParkRaju KucherlapatiChad J CreightonPublished in: Genome biology (2019)
Genomic rearrangement appears to have a major role in shaping the cancer DNA methylome, to be considered alongside commonly accepted mechanisms including histone modifications and disruption of DNA methyltransferases.