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The Role Of Ptip In Breast Cancer, Lina Niu
The Role Of Ptip In Breast Cancer, Lina Niu
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In the U.S., breast cancer comprises about 30% of all cancer cases (excluding skin cancer) in women. Such a high incidence makes breast cancer a significant health concern, but our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of this disease is still limited. Growing evidence suggests that the development of human breast cancer may involve epigenetics, which attributes changes in phenotype to mechanisms other than changes in the DNA sequence itself. Histones as the chief proteins of chromatin work on gene expression, and methylation of histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4) results in transcriptional activation. Lately, Paired box (Pax) trans-activation domain-interacting …