Paper Title
Epigenetic Patterns in Acute and Chronic Leukemia Cell Line
Abstract
Leukemia is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal
while blood cells. To unravel the distinctive epigenetic patterns in various leukemia subtypes, two cell lines representing two
leukemia subtypes ALL (Acute myelogenous leukemia) and CML (Chronic myelogenous leukemia) were chosen for
comparison. Peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) from normal healthy donors was used as control. PBMC was
derived from peripheral blood cell with a round nucleus, which consist of lymphocytes (T cells, B cells, NK cells) and
monocytes. Comparative analysis of epigenetic alterations between the AML and CML subtypes of leukemia, particularly in
histone modifications and DNA methylation, may provide clue to reveal widespread distinct patterns of epigenetic
alterations in leukemia and thereby gain important insight into tumorigenesis.
Keywords - Leukemia, epigenetic regulation, DNA-methylation.