Gangning Liang

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Top papers

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1 Epigenetics in human disease and prospects for epigenetic therapy. Nature 2004 11.46
2 Specific activation of microRNA-127 with downregulation of the proto-oncogene BCL6 by chromatin-modifying drugs in human cancer cells. Cancer Cell 2006 8.46
3 Frequent switching of Polycomb repressive marks and DNA hypermethylation in the PC3 prostate cancer cell line. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 4.20
4 Rethinking how DNA methylation patterns are maintained. Nat Rev Genet 2009 4.03
5 DZNep is a global histone methylation inhibitor that reactivates developmental genes not silenced by DNA methylation. Mol Cancer Ther 2009 3.56
6 Role of nucleosomal occupancy in the epigenetic silencing of the MLH1 CpG island. Cancer Cell 2007 3.15
7 Histone H3-lysine 9 methylation is associated with aberrant gene silencing in cancer cells and is rapidly reversed by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. Cancer Res 2002 3.02
8 The putative tumor suppressor microRNA-101 modulates the cancer epigenome by repressing the polycomb group protein EZH2. Cancer Res 2009 2.83
9 DNA methylation screening identifies driver epigenetic events of cancer cell survival. Cancer Cell 2012 2.45
10 Preferential response of cancer cells to zebularine. Cancer Cell 2004 2.39
11 Selective anchoring of DNA methyltransferases 3A and 3B to nucleosomes containing methylated DNA. Mol Cell Biol 2009 2.34
12 Hypomethylation of a LINE-1 promoter activates an alternate transcript of the MET oncogene in bladders with cancer. PLoS Genet 2010 2.27
13 Identification of DNMT1 (DNA methyltransferase 1) hypomorphs in somatic knockouts suggests an essential role for DNMT1 in cell survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 2.25
14 Polycomb-repressed genes have permissive enhancers that initiate reprogramming. Cell 2011 2.14
15 Genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation within individual DNA molecules. Genome Res 2012 1.95
16 H2A.Z maintenance during mitosis reveals nucleosome shifting on mitotically silenced genes. Mol Cell 2010 1.85
17 Comparison of biological effects of non-nucleoside DNA methylation inhibitors versus 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. Mol Cancer Ther 2005 1.85
18 DNA methylation directly silences genes with non-CpG island promoters and establishes a nucleosome occupied promoter. Hum Mol Genet 2011 1.83
19 Epigenetic therapy upregulates the tumor suppressor microRNA-126 and its host gene EGFL7 in human cancer cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008 1.74
20 Detection of methylated apoptosis-associated genes in urine sediments of bladder cancer patients. Clin Cancer Res 2004 1.69
21 Role of the DNA methyltransferase variant DNMT3b3 in DNA methylation. Mol Cancer Res 2004 1.68
22 Continuous zebularine treatment effectively sustains demethylation in human bladder cancer cells. Mol Cell Biol 2004 1.68
23 Examination of IGF2 and H19 loss of imprinting in bladder cancer. Cancer Res 2007 1.65
24 Changes in DNA methylation of tandem DNA repeats are different from interspersed repeats in cancer. Int J Cancer 2009 1.64
25 Hypomethylation and hypermethylation of DNA in Wilms tumors. Oncogene 2002 1.59
26 Nucleosomes containing methylated DNA stabilize DNA methyltransferases 3A/3B and ensure faithful epigenetic inheritance. PLoS Genet 2011 1.56
27 OCT4 establishes and maintains nucleosome-depleted regions that provide additional layers of epigenetic regulation of its target genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 1.51
28 Unique DNA methylation patterns distinguish noninvasive and invasive urothelial cancers and establish an epigenetic field defect in premalignant tissue. Cancer Res 2010 1.47
29 Locus-wide chromatin remodeling and enhanced androgen receptor-mediated transcription in recurrent prostate tumor cells. Mol Cell Biol 2006 1.46
30 DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight. Nucleic Acids Res 2008 1.42
31 Mechanisms of Disease: genetic and epigenetic alterations that drive bladder cancer. Nat Clin Pract Urol 2005 1.41
32 Delivery of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine to cells using oligodeoxynucleotides. Cancer Res 2007 1.40
33 Prognostic relevance of methylation markers in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder carcinoma. Eur J Cancer 2005 1.18
34 Allelic methylation levels of the noncoding VTRNA2-1 located on chromosome 5q31.1 predict outcome in AML. Blood 2011 1.17
35 Methylation-sensitive single-nucleotide primer extension (Ms-SNuPE) for quantitative measurement of DNA methylation. Nat Protoc 2007 1.16
36 Functional DNA demethylation is accompanied by chromatin accessibility. Nucleic Acids Res 2013 1.09
37 Gene reactivation by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine-induced demethylation requires SRCAP-mediated H2A.Z insertion to establish nucleosome depleted regions. PLoS Genet 2012 1.07
38 Equitoxic doses of 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2'deoxycytidine induce diverse immediate and overlapping heritable changes in the transcriptome. PLoS One 2010 1.07
39 RUNX3 methylation reveals that bladder tumors are older in patients with a history of smoking. Cancer Res 2008 1.05
40 Identification and characterization of alternatively spliced variants of DNA methyltransferase 3a in mammalian cells. Gene 2002 1.04
41 A panel of three markers hyper- and hypomethylated in urine sediments accurately predicts bladder cancer recurrence. Clin Cancer Res 2014 0.99
42 The tumor suppressor microRNA-101 becomes an epigenetic player by targeting the polycomb group protein EZH2 in cancer. Cell Cycle 2009 0.94
43 Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 expression associated with gene demethylation confers anoikis resistance in early phases of melanocyte malignant transformation. Transl Oncol 2009 0.91
44 Diagnostic markers of urothelial cancer based on DNA methylation analysis. BMC Cancer 2013 0.90
45 SNF5 is an essential executor of epigenetic regulation during differentiation. PLoS Genet 2013 0.87
46 Epigenetic reprogramming as a key contributor to melanocyte malignant transformation. Epigenetics 2011 0.86
47 Epigenetic alterations and microRNA misexpression in cancer and autoimmune diseases: a critical review. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 2014 0.84
48 Creating a flexible multiple microRNA expression vector by linking precursor microRNAs. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2011 0.83
49 Synergistic re-activation of epigenetically silenced genes by combinatorial inhibition of DNMTs and LSD1 in cancer cells. PLoS One 2013 0.81
50 Reprogramming of the human intestinal epigenome by surgical tissue transposition. Genome Res 2014 0.80
51 Alterations in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation patterns of Calca, Timp3, Mmp2, and Igf2r are associated with chronic cystitis in a cyclophosphamide-induced mouse model. Urology 2013 0.78
52 Lysine methyltransferase G9a is not required for DNMT3A/3B anchoring to methylated nucleosomes and maintenance of DNA methylation in somatic cells. Epigenetics Chromatin 2012 0.78
53 Epigenetic alterations in bladder cancer and their potential clinical implications. Adv Urol 2012 0.77