By studying these patterns, the investigators said they could identify the cancers' tissue of origin in up to 75% of cases. A report on the research is published online May 29 in Nature.

Zhang, Ph.D., a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), has published a comprehensive analysis of modification patterns in histones ... published in the July 2008 issue of Nature Genetics, ...

By studying these patterns, the investigators said they could identify the cancers' tissue of origin in up to 75% of cases. A report on the research will be published online May 29 in Nature.