Connie C. Cortez, Ph.D.

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2008 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States 
Area:
DNA methylation, cancer, epigenetics
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Peter A. Jones grad student 2008 USC
 (Epigenetic regulation of non CpG island gene promoters.)
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Han H, Cortez CC, Yang X, et al. (2011) DNA methylation directly silences genes with non-CpG island promoters and establishes a nucleosome occupied promoter. Human Molecular Genetics. 20: 4299-310
Miranda TB, Cortez CC, Yoo CB, et al. (2009) DZNep is a global histone methylation inhibitor that reactivates developmental genes not silenced by DNA methylation. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 8: 1579-88
Cortez CC, Jones PA. (2008) Chromatin, cancer and drug therapies. Mutation Research. 647: 44-51
Wolff EM, Liang G, Cortez CC, et al. (2008) RUNX3 methylation reveals that bladder tumors are older in patients with a history of smoking. Cancer Research. 68: 6208-14
van Rietschoten JG, Gal-Yam EN, Jeong S, et al. (2008) Epigenetic regulation and nucleosome positioning in the human TATA-less IL-1 alpha promoter. Genes and Immunity. 9: 582-90
Egger G, Jeong S, Escobar SG, et al. (2006) Identification of DNMT1 (DNA methyltransferase 1) hypomorphs in somatic knockouts suggests an essential role for DNMT1 in cell survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 14080-5
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