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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2016;916:169–197. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30654-4_8

Table 2.

Chromatin modifiers implicated in cancer and their analogous zebrafish models

Chromatin modifier Human cancers Zebrafish cancer model Mechanism of carcinogenesis in fish References
UHRF1 Multiple HCC Senescence escape, genomic instability Cui et al. (2014) [117], Mudbhary et al. (2014) [5]
DNMT1 Multiple No Unknown Li et al. (2010) [118], Chen et al. (2006) [119], Xu et al. (2010) [120]
DNMT3a/b AML, melanoma No Unknown Im et al. (2014) [121], Nguyen et al. (2002) [109]
TET2 Leukemia Myelodysplasia Unknown Gjini et al. (2015) [8], Scourzic et al. (2015) [122]
EZH2 Prostate, HCC, myeloma No Unknown Chinaranagari et at. (2014) [110], Hung et al. (2014) [123]
SETDB1 Melanoma Melanoma Cooperation with BRAFV 600E Ceol et al. (2011) [7]
SUV39H1 HCC, gastric colorectal, breast Rhabdo- myosarcoma Cyclin B1 repression Albacker et al. (2013) [9], Cai et al. (2014) [124], Chiba et al. (2013) [92], Khanal et al. (2013) [125]
G9a Squamous cell carcinoma, glioma No Unknown Tao et al. (2014) [126], Zhong et al. (2015) [127]