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Madison Honer

joined in May 13, 2024

PhD student at Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111.

Honer has 1 break published.

Keeping the balance: How epigenetics monitors cancer genes

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes with two copies per gene, one inherited from each parent. Changes in the genome including gene breaks, rearrangements, and extra gene copies are frequent in many diseases, most commonly in cancer. DNA breaks occur often throughout the genome,... click to read more

Zach Gray | PhD student at Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111

Madison Honer | PhD student at Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111; Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111

Johnathan Whetstine | Professor at Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA 19111

DNA

epigenetics

histones

DNA replication

Cancer biology

Reading time 4 min

published on May 13, 2024