The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers

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<jats:title>Cancer chromatin accessibility landscape</jats:title> <jats:p> The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) provides a high-quality resource of molecular data on a large variety of human cancers. Corces <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> used a recently modified assay to profile chromatin accessibility to determine the accessible chromatin landscape in 410 TCGA samples from 23 cancer types (see the Perspective by Taipale). When the data were integrated with other omics data available for the same tumor samples, inherited risk loci for cancer predisposition were revealed, transcription factors and enhancers driving molecular subtypes of cancer with patient survival differences were identified, and noncoding mutations associated with clinical prognosis were discovered. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" related-article-type="in-this-issue" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aav1898">eaav1898</jats:related-article> ; see also p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6413" page="401" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="362" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aav3494">401</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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    Science 362 (6413), eaav1898-, 2018-10-26

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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