MethyCancer: the database of human DNA methylation and cancer

Cancer is ranked as one of the top killers in all human diseases and continues to have a devastating effect on the population around the globe. Current research efforts are aiming to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer and develop effective means for cancer diagnostics, treatment and prognosis. An altered pattern of epigenetic modifications, most importantly DNA methylation events, plays a critical role in tumorigenesis through regulating oncogene activation, tumor suppressor gene silencing and chromosomal instability. To study interplay of DNA methylation, gene expression and cancer, we developed a publicly accessible database for human DNA Methylation and Cancer (MethyCancer, http:// methycancer.genomics.org.cn). MethyCancer hosts both highly integrated data of DNA methylation, cancer-related gene, mutation and cancer information from public resources, and the CpG Island (CGI) clones derived from our large-scale sequencing. Interconnections between differen...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Ximiao He, Suhua Chang, Jiajie Zhang, Qian Zhao, Haizhen Xiang, Kanthida Kusonmano, Liu Yang, Zhong Sheng Sun, Huanming Yang, Jing Wang 0003
• Keywords: Cancer, DNA Methylation, DNA Methylation Events, NAR 2008