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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer2020

Epigenetic memory in development and disease: Unraveling the mechanism.

Sam Thiagalingam

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Stochastic modeling of epigenetic memory.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026
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  5. Epigenetic memories induced by hypoxia in AKI-to-CKD transition.Clinical and experimental nephrology · 2025
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  16. Implication of the Mediterranean diet on the human epigenome.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2022
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  19. IncreasedJournal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sam ThiagalingamDepartment of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics Section and Cancer Center), Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States of America. Electronic address: samthia@bu.edu.
Boston University · US

Funding

Project-005UL1TR001430 · NCATS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI BAIR-MERRITT, MEGAN H, CENTER, DAVID M. · 2015 to 2024
$52.3M
The role of hBUB1-p53 pathway in genomic stability.R01CA101773 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI THIAGALINGAM, SAM · 2003 to 2007
$1.5M
Genetic Determinants of Epithelial DNA Damage in SmokersR01ES010377 · NIEHS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI THIAGALINGAM, SAM · 2001 to 2004
$1.5M
Dissecting the metastasis suppressor complex to identify colon cancer biomarkersR21CA165707 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI THIAGALINGAM, SAM · 2013 to 2014
$386k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001430NCI NIH HHS R01 CA101773NCI NIH HHS R21 CA165707NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic memory is an essential process of life that governs the inheritance of predestined functional characteristics of normal cells and the newly acquired properties of cells affected by cancer and other diseases from parental to progeny cells. Unraveling the molecular basis of epigenetic memory dictated by protein and RNA factors in conjunction with epigenetic marks that are erased and re-established during embryogenesis/development during the formation of somatic, stem and disease cells will have far reaching implications to our understanding of embryogenesis/development and various diseases including cancer. While there has been enormous progress made, there are still gaps in knowledge which includes, the identity of unique epigenetic memory factors (EMFs) and epigenome coding enzymes/co-factors/scaffolding proteins involved in the assembly of defined "epigenetic memorysomes" and the epigenome marks that constitute collections of gene specific epigenetic memories corresponding to specific cell types and physiological conditions. A better understanding of the molecular basis for epigenetic memory will play a central role in improving diagnostics and prognostics of disease states and aid the development of targeted therapeutics of complex diseases.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticCell DifferentiationDNA MethylationEpigenomicsHistonesHumansNeoplasmsHistonesCancer stem cellsComplex diseasesDevelopmentEpigenetic drugsEpigenetic marksEpigenetic memoryEpigenetic memory factorsEpigenetic memorysomesepigenomeHistone marksImprintingiPSCsPluripotentStem cellsX-inactivation

Identifiers

PMID31982403
PMCPMC7225062
OpenAlexW3003001162

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