Jay  Morris
        
				
					
					
						
						Jay  Morris
	
					    
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M
University, College Station, Texas 77845                            
                            
						
					 
				 
								Biography
				Jay  Morris  is a researcher in Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, Texas 77845.Currently his latest research interest is on the field of Silencing of regulatory genes through hypermethylation of CpG islands is an important mechanism in tumorigenesis. In colon cancer, RXRα, an important dimerization partner with other nuclear transcription factors, is silenced through this mechanism.