Methylation similarities of two CpG sites within exon 5 of human H19 between normal tissues and testicular germ cell tumours of adolescents and adults, without correlation with allelic and total level of expression

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 725-733

  Gillis, A J M ^a   Verkerk, A J M H ^a   Dekker, M C ^a   Van Gurp, R J H L M ^a   Oosterhuis, J W ^a   Looijenga, L H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Expression; Genomic imprinting; H19; Methylation; Testicular germ cell tumour

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TESTIS TUMOR;

EID: 0030794757     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.453     Document Type: Article

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