Extensive DNA methylation spanning the Rb promoter in retinoblastoma tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2229-2237

  Stirzaker, Clare ^a   Millar, Douglas S ^a   Paul, Cheryl L ^a   Warnecke, Peter M ^a   Harrison, Janet ^a   Vincent, Paul C ^a   Frommer, Marianne ^c   Clark, Susan J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANCER CELL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; E2F TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030925099     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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