CpG island hypermethylation in human colorectal tumors is not associated with DNA methyltransferase overexpression

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2302-2306

  Eads, Cindy A ^a,b   Danenberg, Kathleen D ^b   Kawakami, Kazuyuki ^b   Saltz, Leonard B ^c   Danenberg, Peter V ^b   Laird, Peter W ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033563083     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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