Methylation of the hMLH1 promoter correlates with lack of expression of hMLH1 in sporadic colon tumors and mismatch repair-defective human tumor cell lines

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 808-811

  Kane, Michael F ^a   Loda, Massimo ^a   Gaida, Gretchen M ^a   Lipman, Jennifer ^a   Mishra, Rajesh ^a   Goldman, Harvey ^a   Jessup, J Milburn ^a   Kolodner, Richard ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA, NEOPLASM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031017268     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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