Abstract

In this issue, Weber and coworkers report that DNA-demethylating drugs alter the transcriptional expression of the cMet proto-oncogene. Abnormal transcription is driven by the antisense promoter of a Line-1 repetitive element present within an intron. The element is a recent addition to the genome and is absent in animal models of cancer.

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