The EZH2 polycomb transcriptional repressor - a marker or mover of metastatic prostate cancer?

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Sellers, WR [1 ]
Loda, M
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Med Oncol,Dana Farber Canc Inst, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[3] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Pathol, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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10.1016/S1535-6108(02)00187-3
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R73 [肿瘤学];
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The recent finding of overexpression of the polycomb group transcriptional repressor EZH2 in prostate cancer raises the possibility that transcriptional regulation at the chromatin level may play a role in the development of the metastatic phenotype and suggests new avenues of exploration with respect to patient stratification and therapeutics.
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