Yu Qiang
Cancer Biology and Pharmacology, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Biopolis, Singapore.
Epigenetics. 2008 Nov;3(6):315-7. doi: 10.4161/epi.3.6.7202. Epub 2008 Nov 14.
Both DNA hypermethylation and Polycomb-mediated histone methylation induce gene silencing in cancer, but largely in two separate paths. Hence, different pharmacologic approaches are required to reactivate genes silenced by distinct epigenetic mechanisms.