Concurrent DNA hypermethylation of multiple genes in acute myeloid leukemia

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3730-3740

  Melki, John R ^a,b   Vincent, Paul C ^a,b   Clark, Susan J ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW; CADHERINS; CALCITONIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COHORT STUDIES; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P15; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; GENES; GENES, P16; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033179375     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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