A novel sperm-specific hypomethylation sequence is a demethylation hotspot in human hepatocellular carcinomas

Gene

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-20

  Nagai, Hisaki ^a,c   Kim, Yong Sung ^a,b   Yasuda, Takushi ^a   Ohmachi, Yoshitaka ^a   Yokouchi, Hideki ^a   Monden, Morito ^a   Emi, Mitsuru ^c   Konishi, Noboru ^d   Nogami, Masahiro ^e   Okumura, Katsuzumi ^e   Matsubara, Kenichi ^a,f  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HCC; NotI repeat; RLGS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA METHYLATION; DOGS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032819322     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00322-4     Document Type: Article

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