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Chromatin is the complex of DNA, histones, and other scaffolding proteins that make up the chromosomes, which in eukaryotes is located in the nucleus of the cell.

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Why is it important to study chromatin to understand cancer?

There is also the fact that chromatin modification machinery is very highly mutated in cancers; examples include EP300 - a histone acetyltransferase, and members of the SWI/SNF nucleosome remodelling complex …
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