Genetics: Pushing boundaries

Nature Reviews Cancer 16, 199 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrc.2016.34 Author: Gemma K. Alderton Chromosome structures called insulated neighbourhoods allow the control of genes within that structure, and Hnisz, Weintraub et al. investigated whether proto-oncogenes might also be affected by this regulation. They found that recurrent deletions that ablate the boundaries of insulated neighbourhoods occur in many types
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