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This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source.[1]
- Michaël Duruisseaux, Manel Esteller,Lung cancer epigenetics: From knowledge to applications, Seminars in Cancer Biology, Volume 51, 2018, Pages 116-128, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.09.005.
- This article is published in the journal of cancer biology and is peer-reviewed it has many other articles that are peer-reviewed cited in it and it gives a lot of good information about the epigenetics of lung cancer and does a good job of describing what it is.
- Lung cancer epigenetics: emerging biomarkers Ioanna Balgkouranidou, Triantafillos Liloglou, and Evi S Lianidou Biomarkers in Medicine 2013 7:1, 49-58 Lung cancer epigenetics: emerging biomarkers | Biomarkers in Medicine (futuremedicine.com)[2]
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic of biomarkers of lung cancer and DNA myelination of tumors in some depth which establishes some notability.
- Ansari J, Shackelford RE, El-Osta H. Epigenetics in non-small cell lung cancer: from basics to therapeutics. Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2016 Apr;5(2):155-71. doi: 10.21037/tlcr.2016.02.02. PMID: 27186511; PMCID: PMC4858572[3]
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact.