Aberrant methylation in gastric cancer associated with the CpG island methylator phenotype

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 5438-5442

  Toyota, Minoru ^a   Ahuja, Nita ^a   Suzuki, Hiromu ^b   Itoh, Fumio ^b   Ohe Toyota, Mutsumi ^a   Imai, Kohzoh ^b   Baylin, Stephen B ^a   Issa, Jean Pierre J ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033229890     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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