It influences some of the most fundamental mechanisms contro

It influences some of the most fundamental mechanisms controlling gene activity in our cells,” said Andy Futreal, co-leader of the Cancer Genome Project at Britain’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which led the study. “Unlike many cancer genes, UTX does not appear to be directly involved in cell division or cell death but in basic regulation, and shows the depths to which cancers will plumb in order to get themselves ready to go.